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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to make a brief contribution on Vote 01, the Ministry of State for Administration and National Security. Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes I dare to say that when the British left this country, they had established a department of Provincial Adminstration. Our first Independent Government took over it, enlarged it and really entrenched it in the systems of this country. Sometimes I think our own Government followed actually what the British were doing. This Provincial Administration system July 10, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2365 was brought into place to oppress and suppress the citizens of this country. Actually, there has not been very much change from our own Independent Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, most of the things that the Provincial Administration of the British colonisers was doing like threatening, intimidating and dictating to the citizenry has actually been going on in our independent Governments. Sometimes, it is not even what happens in Britain itself. The British have got a social system of government under the local authorities where the citizenry are given the power and ability to say how they want to be governed. This is the truth. I think there has been a mixture between the Ministry of State for Defence and the Ministry of Administration and National Security. We do not know who is doing what and who is doing the other. The Ministry of Home Affairs in Britain does the police work and the defence work is done by the military. So, to me, I would have preferred that the Ministry of State for Administration and National Security really becomes a social system based on the local authorities, so that the people themselves can be consulted on whatever goes on in their own areas. We would like to see a situation where our people make decisions of what happens in their own local areas and not being dictated upon by somebody at the top. This, to me, is dictatorship. This general condition of who is doing what in defence and policing, I think has not also been thoroughly co-ordinated. My friend and colleague, Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry, who was the Official Responder from this side, talked about the newly created districts. I have not seen any reason at all to fault the Districts and Provincial Boundaries Act. We know it is definitely for personal and vested interests of the ruling elite that these districts have been created. For example, the creation of a new district in Narok District is definitely for purposes of the ruling group to go down and loot the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. It is true that the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and Narok County Council have been protecting the Mara Game Reserve. Now, they want to put the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in one small corner where they can control the people there. We already know they have positioned themselves to go in, grab and loot the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. This is why we are saying \"no\" to the creation of that district. You know that I would like the voice of the people to be heard by the Government. We have not even been consulted. We have not seen any Government officer or the Minister coming to make us sit together and asking us the reasons for our objection to the creation of another district. The main purpose of us refusing this other district is because we do not want the Maasai Mara Game Reserve to be put in one corner, where a few people can come from the top, loot and kill the wildlife which is the heritage of the children of this country. We have not been consulted on the boundaries and headquarters. I do not mind if there are any other areas in the district where the people have agreed and said they would like a district for many other reasons. I do not have any objection to that, but we cannot impose this situation on the people. Already, there are conflicts which are being ignored by the Provincial Administration. In Meru, for example, there is also a simmering one and also in North Eastern Province. They would think ours is cool, but it is not that cool. It could heat up anytime. The Maasai Mara Game Reserve is such an important area for this country and the world. We do not want to be ruled by a few people who have got connections at the top and who can sell our rights to other people. It is also important to say that, already, they have done a few things. We want democracy to prevail in some of these things on the ground as against a dictatorial attitude which is being used by the Provincial Administration to get their own way. Mr. Speaker, Sir, apart from that, I have seen my friend, Mr. John Michuki reading an impressive list of departments definitely that the Provincial Administration is financing and looking after. That is fine. I think they should know that most of the major corruption scandals that have taken place in this country, apart from the Goldenberg which was about exporting gold and 2366 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 10, 2007 diamond--- It is actually some of the departments in the Provincial Administration that have been involved in the major corruption scandals that we have seen in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Anglo Leasing scandal is all based under the Provincial Administration. It involves the forensic science laboratory scandal, the procurement of a Spanish navy ship, the purchase of helicopters, the rifles and so on. The corruption scandals are actually thoroughly based in some of the departments in the Provincial Administration. What do they think the public will say? It is actually something that the Minister and those working in the Provincial Administration should sit and discuss to see where they have gone wrong. This is because apart from the dictatorial attitude that they display, all the major corruption scandals are within the Provincial Administration. Sometimes it is the Permanent Secretaries themselves. They sacked one or two of them a year ago because they were directly involved. But what happened? Even these things happen at the district and provincial level, but we have never seen anybody being prosecuted and jailed for whatever wrong they have done to this country. What do we do? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like the Minister, and I have no reason to believe that he cannot really look into these things properly, to scrap these newly created districts where they are not wanted. This is because conflicts are going to arise and we will blame them for the insecurity that will take place in this country. We will also blame them for the marginalisation that other groups or communities will face. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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