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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odoyo",
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    "content": "in Kenya or Africa has not been addressed. It is time that we have to put our foot down so that we are able to, first, undertake intra-trade among the neighbouring countries before we venture into other countries. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is time that this Parliament put in legislation to introduce all manner of value addition to the products we produce in Kenya. It is time for us to say that unless we are able to bring in more export revenue, this country may be on the downward side. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I congratulate the Committee that held this particular meeting in Nairobi and, indeed I looked at the membership that was the official delegation, we would have preferred an almost 50 to 50 representation from left to right sides. The delegation was too lopsided on the Government side. Perhaps, in future IPU conferences, we request your office and the Chair to try and make it balanced on a 50 to 50 representation, so that we can have 50 per cent of hon. Members from the left and 50 per cent from the right hand side. In this case, we had 70 per cent membership from the Government side while only 30 per cent was taken from what was perceived as the Opposition side. Indeed, parliamentary matters cut across the divide of left and right and I plead that this issue should be looked into. 398 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 4, 2007 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to talk briefly in passing about small arms. Insecurity in this country continues to increase. Indeed, unless we are able to get the police to respond, and it is not that we are asking Mr. Michuki to get rid of insecurity; insecurity will always be there. But we are telling Mr. Michuki that the response time of the police and armed forces has to be such that they can arrest a situation. We have mobs and people walking down a street, like Tom Mboya Street with impunity, holding guns like the AK-47, just assuming that there is no security in this country. Indeed, all the good work that has been done by this Government is being eroded very fast by insecurity. I plead to this Government that if the Steadman Report will not start showing declining rating trends---Unless you correct the insecurity situation, do accept that the Report will start to show that this Government has ratings which will be well below 20 per cent. In fact, I predict that come October, 2007, the Government ratings will be in the region of 12 to 14 per cent due to increasing insecurity. Increasing insecurity is due to declining resources for our people."
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