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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you very much for your intervention, which was timely and needed. The other challenge is:- (3) Inadequate equipment. (4) Inadequate training facilities. (5) Inadequate houses for police officers. (6) Threat of terrorism and other forms of emerging crime. (7) Porous borders within Kenya. (8) Proliferation of small arms and light weapons. (9) Cattle rustling and banditry in pastoralist areas. (10) Drug trafficking and substance abuse. (11) Conflicts over resources, especially land and water. (12) Organised criminal gangs. In spite of those challenges, the Ministry has continued to discharge its responsibilities to ensure maintenance of security, peace, law and order, which are prerequisite for social-economic and political development of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me now to highlight some of the main activities and achievements realised during the last financial year, and the main programmes that we intend to undertake during this financial year. The Provincial Administration, with its extensive structures from the provinces to the sub- locations, is the most visible organ through which the Executive arm of the Government reaches to all Kenyans. It co-ordinates all the other Government departments in the districts and also provides the most effective mechanism for resolution of social conflicts as well as dissemination and articulation of Government policies through participatory barazas with the local people. It also advises the Government on matters emanating from the grassroots on various issues. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in order to bring administration closer to the people, the Government has acceded to their wishes by proposing the creation of an additional 46 districts. It has issued a gazette notice to that effect. In that regard, the Ministry has embarked on the process of preparing the necessary infrastructure for eventual legalisation of those new units of administration by this House. However, my request for funding to meet budgetary requirements for the infrastructure during this financial year has not been fully met. I will, therefore, be requesting for additional funds in the course of the year to supplement what has been provided for in the current Printed Estimates. Mr. Speaker, Sir, following last year's report by the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), which ranked the Office of the President among the Ministries perceived to be the most affected by corruption, my Ministry embarked on a countrywide reform programme, known as the \"Rapid Result Initiative (RRI)\". The objective of the initiative was to improve efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery to wananchi through setting of targets and specific time frames within which the services should be provided. The implementation of that initiative involved the highest political leadership. It was spearheaded by Ministers, Assistant Ministers and Permanent Secretaries in the Office of the President, who participated in a countrywide sensitization programme under the banner of \" Huduma Bora ni Haki Yako \". As part of that initiative, my Ministry has, successfully, implemented the following programmes and activities. (I) We have mainstreamed performance contracting at all levels of the Provincial Administration. (II) We have established customer-care desks and complaints/ suggestions boxes under the \" Toa Habari kwa Serikali \" initiative at all Provincial Administration units and police stations. (III) We have developed service charters to facilitate standardised, ethical and predictable 2358 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 10, 2007 service delivery to wananchi . (IV) We have operationalised the Administration Police and the regular police website. Through the police website, wananchi can now download P3 Forms, about which they have complained so loudly in the past."
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