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    "id": 282406,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/282406/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to also contribute to this policy statement by His Excellency the President and laud the content as being critical to moving our country forward. This country is facing many challenges; some challenges are surmountable others insurmountable. We are going to elections and given our previous history and how Kenyans have behaved at elections, in 1992/93, 1997 and 2007, we must be extra vigilant in making adequate security preparations, so that we do not have any reckless loss of lives, destruction of property and mayhem born out of possible disagreement on the outcome of elections. Kenya is not the only country that goes through hotly contested elections. We have this world over. We have just had one very hotly contested election in France. We had one recently in Zambia. We had one in Ghana four years ago, where the winning President defeated his nearest rival by a paltry 29,000 votes. In Zambia, the winning President defeated his rival by 35,000 votes, and nobody threw a stone. Nobody picked a machete. Nobody picked a gun. The winner was not exalted unnecessarily, neither was the loser vanquished. They saw their country as bigger or greater than any one of them and their countries have moved on. I want to urge we, leaders, in this country that those in contention and those who support those in contention should know that an electoral process is a competition of ideas for the people of Kenya to choose whom they want to lead them. It is not an act of war. Those in charge of security apparatus must do everything humanly possible to make sure that those hell bent on compromising our peace and security are tucked away where such people are tucked, so that this country can enjoy unparalleled peace, security and development. Hand in hand with that, we cannot have adequate security without adequate policing. We need an adequate police force, a police force that is not demoralized, a police force that is well paid and has adequate facilities in terms of movement. I have always said it that defeats logic to put the police officer in charge of Turkana County, give him one Land Rover and expect him to discharge his duties. Police officers in counties like Turkana, Marsabit, Moyale, Wajir and Garissa should be given helicopters to be able to manage the challenges of security. There are no roads and the Land Rovers will not move. The communication even in terms of telephones is poor and by the time they catch up with wrongdoers, they have either crossed the border into our neighborhood or disappeared all together. That must be done! We have lost lives in Todonyang and Moyale because of the incapacity of the police to meet the challenge."
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