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    "id": 1550470,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "always alert to anniversaries of other attacks that have happened in the past because we know they would like to use those opportunities to make a statement and instil fear in the country. As I said earlier, our security forces are up to the task. Unfortunately, because of these targeted attacks on chiefs and NPR, we have lost some of them. At the same time, a few of them have found themselves in Somalia. Everything is being done to address this issue. The Question by my friend, Hon. Parashina, is the same. He wanted transparency on the distribution of the ones being operationalised now and those coming after. The Question is still the same, and as I said, the information will be given. Hon. Pukose raised another issue. We have a problem with police vehicles and administrative units’ vehicles for our administrators across the country. At the moment, there is an acute shortage because as we continue operationalising, there are chiefs who do not have motorbikes, Assistant County Commissioners (ACCs) who do not have vehicles or motorbikes and sub-county Deputy County Commissioners who do not have vehicles, and so forth. The police leasing program also applies to police officers. Many police stations do not have vehicles because either the leasing period ended or their vehicles were destroyed. For example, in the case of Laikipia, the Police Commander's vehicle was burned by some people pretending to be protesting and making a statement that they were of a particular generation. Unfortunately, they burnt the County Commander's vehicle, and now he does not have a vehicle to respond to issues of banditry. We are working on a leasing program with the National Treasury. Again, we will bring this proposal to Parliament for the next financial year. Part of it needs to be supported to ensure we increase the number of vehicles. We are targeting 5,000, giving some to our National Government Administration Officers (NGAOs) and others to police stations. We would like to see these police stations properly operating and having proper vehicles for proper response. With this equipment, we will have a greater response. Hon. Pukose, we were hoping that by July or August, this leasing program would have worked and the vehicles delivered. I hope we will do so to increase the mobility of our security forces. Hon. Hassan, I am aware. We discussed with you the issue of insecurity at Majengo. Unfortunately, during an operation that was meant to flush out gangs that were dealing with drugs, the operation went wrong at some point, and two people lost their lives. Investigations are ongoing. Since I did not know you were going to ask this Question, I would like to go back to the National Police Service (NPS) and find out exactly how far the investigation is and what has been done so far. However, I am aware that there was that incident at Kamukunji, and we will work on it. I want to thank Hon. Hassan. One of the things we enjoy about his Constituency is the"
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