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"content": "If we do not do it, sooner than later, we are going to have a crisis and very many Kenyans, who invest in shares and stocks in the belief that the Government, through the CMA and the Treasury, regulates the NSE, will suffer. I would also appeal to the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade to take interest and truly investigate what the facts are before matters go out of hand. The Committee should even question the Ministry of Finance. Let them find out who is in the CMA. Are they able to discharge their mandate? How do you get somebody who, himself, is a failed stockbroker and put him in charge of the regulatory body? How can it work? Who, in the NSE, is going to have any respect for that person as a regulator? Let us not close our eyes to a gathering storm until it is out of hand. This is what we always do as Kenyans. When there is a crisis, we set up a rapid response unit. After that it is never set up again until another crisis catches up with us. Even the Rift Valley Fever that wreaked havoc to pastoralists--- The warning signs were there. We had been told about it and we took no action in time until the crisis was with us. So, in respect of the NSE, I appeal to the Government, the Ministry of Finance and the relevant Parliamentary Departmental Committee to take interest in the NSE, investigate it, find out the facts and take pre-emptive action. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the next point I would like to make is with regard to insecurity. It is true that the Government is trying to contain it, but it is not trying hard enough. First of all, we need to give more resources to the police. It is the right of every Kenyan, irrespective of where they are staying across the entire country, to walk in the knowledge that they will not be attacked. They should go home, sleep in the knowledge that their houses will not be broken into at night. However, that is not the position. There is apprehension; everybody is worried about the issue of insecurity in this country. One of the things that the Government must expedite and fast-track is the issue of a forensic laboratory. We cannot expect the police to combat insecurity unless they have got a state- of-the-art forensic laboratory. As we all are aware, even the genetic formation of identical twins is different. When people go mugging, robbing, car-jacking they leave their DNA there. Therefore, with a forensic laboratory, we will be able to take this DNA and match it down the line. The result will be that robbers, muggers and rapists will only run, but they cannot hide. How can we today expect the police to combat insecurity unless we build a forensic laboratory for them? Never mind about Anglo Leasing scandal, nobody supports corruption. However, if I were the president, I would not have cancelled the building of a forensic laboratory because insecurity is priority number one. I would have said: \"Let it be built.\" Then I would proceed with the investigations and take to court those who may have wanted to benefit at a personal level. However, we cannot leave Kenyans at the mercy of robbers because people have said that others will benefit at a personal level. So, I am urging the Government to immediately construct this forensic laboratory, so that we give capacity to the police to fight insecurity. March 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 171 Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, even ordinary things like vehicles, communication equipment and other gadgets be supplied to the police force as a matter of priority. We all know the kind of houses the police officers stay in. They are terrible! If you go to Kikuyu Police Station, for example, it is embarrassing. How do we expect them to resist the temptation of taking bribes from criminals? That is why we hear, from credible sources, that a number of senior or even lower ranking police officers are in cahoots with the criminals. We need to equip them and make sure that they are living well. We need to pay them properly and we need, of course, to clean the police force. This is because the reality is that some of them act in collaboration with the criminals and this is part of the reason why it has become very difficult to combat crime in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of health services, again, the Government has tried. However, there is one area that truly the Government needs to pay special attention to. This is with regard to the increasing cases of kidney diseases. We have got very many Kenyans today who need dialysis. It is a very expensive thing. There are people who are suffering and going to their graves early because they cannot afford the cost of dialysis. Even as the Government allocates money to HIV/AIDS pandemic, can it give some thought to allocating money to the patients who need dialysis, so that they can have free treatment at all Government hospitals? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to spend time talking about the constitutional reforms since there will be plenty of time for that. However, when we talk about everything going to the referendum, I just have one comment. We amended the Constitution and brought a very useful clause, that a President can only run for two terms. That was done on the Floor of this House. The repeal of Section 2(A) was done on the Floor of this House. So, let us go into this dialogue with open minds because everything has been discussed. Most of the proposals have been suggested and, therefore, no one is creating other new proposals. These are the proposals contained in the Bomas Draft, Kilifi Draft and Naivasha Accord. These are the views of Kenyans. When we have a new constitution, I agree we must take it to a referendum. When we are amending specific clauses, it is the constitutional mandate of this House to do so. I beg to support."
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