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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gumo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fredrick fidelis Omulo Gumo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not say they were killers. I said some hon. Members of this House supported the Margaryan group and it is public knowledge. They were up here. When we said these people were not good, some of them were quarrelling and fighting us. I do not know how much they earned from those people. This is all corruption. Instead of the Government finding out what sort of people they were, it supports them. It supports people who they do not know. When the truth is found, the Government is the first one to say they did not know. You did not know what? You are the Government and you are supposed to know anybody who comes in. A Government is a Government! If you are not able to know then resign and let some of us run it. We have seen how the Government is run. We have been there and we know. Some of you were in the Opposition and that is why you are even more confused. You do not even know how the Government is run. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a lot of money has been allocated to the Department of Defence (DOD) and today when you are driving to Nakuru or some other town, you find DOD vehicles stuck on the road. These are 20 year old Land-Rovers. Where does this money go? Why do they not buy new vehicles? Military vehicles are an embarrassment to this country. At least, the police have new Land-Cruisers. What about the military? Where is the Minister of State for Defence to tell us why he cannot buy the military new vehicles and yet the DOD is getting a lot of money? Where does this money go? This must be a conduit through which money is siphoned out. Probably this is the way the money is stolen. The Government uses the DOD to get the money siphoned out. Why should we vote for so much money every year and yet our military people do June 29, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1757 not have properly serviced vehicles? We have no Land-Rovers and if we are invaded today what shall we do? Shall we go to war on foot? Even today the military still have the long old AK-47 guns which are out of date and yet we vote billions of shillings for the DOD every year. Please, this time buy new vehicles for our military. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day I was going to Naivasha and I was embarrassed to be stopped by military personnel by the roadside at night. Their Land-Rover had broken down because its battery was down. The Land-Rover's battery was \"dead\" and the vehicle was stuck in the bush. My dear friend, can you not be embarrassed by that and yet we pass the vote of the DOD here every year? I am ashamed of and embarrassed by our military vehicles. That is why insurgents from Ethiopia attack our people in North Eastern Province the way they want because we do not have military vehicles to chase them. Let us put our money to the right use. I beg to support."
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