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    "speaker_name": "Mr. G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this August 3, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2615 opportunity. I support the adjournment of this House to a day other than the next normal sitting day. This Government cannot be compared with any other Government since Independence when it comes to service delivery. That is a fact that every hon. Member here agrees with. We have had the facilitation to deliver to our respective constituencies as Members of Parliament. However, it is important for this Government to know that it is nothing but a tool for maintaining public security. If the Government cannot protect its own citizens from outside or inside harm, then that Government is not worth its name. I am saying this, not with bitterness, but because it is a matter that has been bothering us. My constituency has become a battleground for Pokots and Samburus. This is a simple in so far as Members of Parliament can laugh at it, but it can degenerate into a worse situation. We know that the Government does not have the commitment to control this situation, because if it really has the will, this situation should have been sorted out. There is one example that shows that, that matter is not as simple as we see it. On 29th May, 2006, a chief inspector from the General Service Unit (GSU) was found training the invaders or the killers. He is a Samburu! But the matter was just left to die quietly. It is a very serious matter. It is provoking other tribes in Laikipia West. It must be known that it is not only the Samburu and Pokots who are there. There are Turkanas, Kalenjins and many other tribes. They need protection from this Government. The Government may wish to sustain itself by letting very dangerous things happen. That is a very serious matter. On the case of the chief inspector training the invaders, when I followed up the matter to find out what was happening, I was told that the matter had been referred to the Provincial Police Officer. When I asked, he told me that he was going to find out what happened. That is not a matter to be laughed about. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that this Government needs to be careful about is the presence of foreign missions. Time has come to change our attitude towards foreign missions. There is no need to allow an ambassador of a certain country, especially those that are hostile to Kenya, to travel everywhere at will. Time has come to reciprocate. If we do not travel in their country, they should also be contained and confined in their offices. I do not know why we value ambassadors so highly. Even though they represent their governments, they are at the same level as Under Secretaries in the Ministries. But in most African countries, ambassadors are treated more highly than even Presidents. If they invite Members of Parliament to their houses, they will all go! I think we need to change that attitude. The Government needs to look at security roads in our country. Cases of theft are allowed to spread because we are unable to reach at the centre of the problem. This Government should start thinking differently from the previous thinkers. Unless we have roads to enable security forces to mobilise themselves to stop or quell a situation which is degenerating to a problem, it would be difficult to achieve anything. Without roads, we shall just be talking to ourselves. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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