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    "id": 243899,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khamasi",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Lyula Khamasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Motion. I want to declare that my intention is to support this Motion. July 11, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1955 The Office of the President (OP) is the lead Ministry in this country, and everybody expects it to do the best. It must set standards for all other Ministries. Whenever the Controller and Auditor-General publishes his audit report year in, year out, this Ministry is the biggest culprit. The way in which most security contracts are awarded by the OP leaves a lot to be desired. Billions of shillings have been spent buying nothing, yet we go on crying about not having enough funds to undertake development projects! Improprieties always happen in the OP. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the OP has too many departments. Some of its departments are completely irrelevant to its functions. We have said time and again that it is worth thinking very seriously about moving elsewhere, some of these departments. They should be transferred to the relevant Ministries. It is important for this exercise to be undertaken. I know that, as of now, the OP has tried, but we want more of its departments to be moved to the relevant Ministries. As my colleagues have said, provision of security is the principal function of the OP. From what we have been reading in the Press, this country is becoming insecure by the day. But statistics from the OP show otherwise. One wonders, who do we believe in this matter? Do we believe the people who are affected by crime or the people in the OP who produce statistics? This matter needs to be looked into. This brings us to the question of how we have handled our security agencies. In fact, the real people who are dealing with crime in our rural areas are village elders, assistant chiefs, chiefs and DOs. How are these people equipped for security work? How are they equipped? They are very poorly equipped. I think that we really need to look at this matter. We should not be crying about the police officers being given vehicles and so many other things. At least, it is important to know what a chief and an assistant chief are going to be equipped with. Now that we are reducing the number of vehicles in our Ministries, most of which were being misused, we should ensure that the funds raised out of those vehicles are used to buy motorcycles for chiefs and assistant chiefs. Perhaps, we will then realise a considerable decline in crime in the rural areas. Chiefs and assistant chiefs have been neglected, and yet they are the first to receive reports on crime. So, I suggest that once the Minister for Finance provides the money that will be raised from the sale of these vehicles that are being used hapharzadly, that consideration should be made. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our police force still has lots of problems. I would like the Minister to know that even as we talk today, if a crime is reported at a police station, police officers still ask for pesa ya mafuta. Even in this Kibaki administration, police officers still ask for"
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