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    "id": 243388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": "I can name them; do not worry about that. We have to root out nepotism and corruption from this country. When you look at the allocation to the Ministry of Provincial Administration and Internal Security, you will see that the GSU is given Kshs2.1 billion. Now, my question is why should we have our citizens being attacked by militiamen from Ethiopia when we have our security forces? What are the GSU officers doing to protect our people? We want our GSU officers to go to our borders to maintain security and order. We want this money to be used to buy communication equipment and vehicles for our security personnel. We want all the vehicles returned by Ministers and Assistant Ministers to be given to the police to enable them defend our people. This is the message I am trying to put across. It is wrong to have a Minister who has no clue as to what national security is all about! It is unfortunate that somebody who has no clue as to what national security is all about is in charge of it!. We must give our police good communication equipment and good housing, so that they have morale. In that way, they will be able to secure our Ministers who are being carjacked. One way of improving security is by giving our police good communication facilities. A police officer should be able to call his colleagues to report incidents of carjacking of Minister X or Y. We must root out nepotism and corruption. This is the message I am putting across to this Government. It is unfortunate that our Ministers do not understand national security issues. The Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security has said that he requires 3000 vehicles. What is the Government waiting for? It should repossess vehicles from other Ministries and give them to the police. In the meantime, it can bring to this House Supplementary Estimates so that we can give it more money, if it will not all have been stolen. Those in the Government have the habit of stealing money! Our problem in this country is that we have Ministers who defend themselves against every wrong doing. This is a Government where a Minister can wake up at midnight to stop execution of an order given by another Minister. He then ends up being bulldozed to hospital. This is an unfortunate situation in this country. It is a shame. We also have Ministers who cannot account for money allocated to their Ministries. July 12, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2043 As I said earlier, I do not know the arrangements in the Office of the President, but I know that there are some departments whose budgets have not been presented. I would like to urge specific House Committees to deal with specific security institutions, so that money allocated to them is properly utilised to offer services to the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I conclude my contribution, I would like to say that, as a House, we must demand proper utilisation of any money we approve. This Ministry has been identified as the most corrupt in the world. I am saying this because it is said to be the most corrupt in this country. So, we would like this money to be properly accounted for. We have been taken for a ride by this Government in the creation of more districts. We want development to be undertaken at the constituency levels and not at the district level. This is because decentralisation of projects is what is required by our people. We should not marginalise some communities by sub- dividing their districts without considering availability of resources. This will cause insecurity in this country. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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