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    "content": "and the many cases we hear about organised criminals behove all of to say enough is enough. During the Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG) in 1997 and under the exuberance of reforms, we mutilated the Chief’s Authority Act that used to be a major beacon for assisting chiefs in certain areas in this country to fight crime. I know that chiefs had some excesses that people were uncomfortable with, but we also know that our over-stretched police force needs help from many quarters. The mushrooming of vigilante groups in the name of keeping security is because some structures of the Government have been weakened under the guise of reforms. We need to look back and see how we can structure security organs from the village up to the top so that a person in the village feels just as secure as you feel, in your Mercedes Benz, in the streets of Nairobi. This will also make a person in Korogocho feel as secure as you feed in your better house in Lavington. It is not tenable and, in fact, it is false that poverty is the cause of criminal activities in this country. We have neighbours who are poorer than Kenya and yet their crime rate is not high. We have neighbours with less organised social systems than Kenya and yet their crime rate is not as high as ours. I think there is something tragically wrong that we need to address as a leadership."
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