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"content": "the best of the best. It is called an intelligence service. It must recruit intelligent Kenyans, intelligent Kenyans able to read situations, to understand situations, to rise to the occasion to forestall dangers where they are detected. I want to see a situation where the intelligence service living up to its name is constantly ahead of everybody else, particularly criminals. We have money launders, drug traffickers, international criminals on the run, bogus asylum seekers and all manner of people with very dubious intentions. Therefore, the intelligence service must carry out intelligence to be able to make our boarders, country, and citizenry safer. In so doing, I also want to urge that the Act is for utmost good, in respect of the law, in respect of people’s rights regardless of age, religion, colour or creed. I also want to urge that we avoid any dangers or temptations to profile any community or any race in this country, so that where there is a wrong doer, he must be dealt with as a wrong doer and not as Muslim, Christian, Somali, Indian or whatever. The law must apply to everybody equally. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have heard and so have you, I am sure, grumbling out there that the passage of this Bill will entrench or create a Police State, far from it. What I have been hearing is that we are empowering some intelligence officers to bear arms. I do not see why that should be a problem. There are so many Kenyans who are licensed to carry guns. I am sure half of this Parliament has Members who are licensed to carry guns. If we are going to entrust our intelligence service to track down criminals and dangerous criminals at that, more particularly terrorists, who maybe armed in a most dangerous manner, I do not see why we should not allow them in certain instances to be armed as well. That is the only way they can execute their duties. If there is a wrong group armed somewhere, of course, one will expect that the intelligence service will tell the police to go and arrest them. By the time they tell the police to go and arrest, the mischief will have been done. So, there must be certain situations, just like civilians, including these Members of Parliament who are licensed to bear arms, that intelligence officers should equally be allowed to be properly equipped, so that they can take care of any situation that compromises or endangers public safety, national security and peace of the people of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, once this Bill is passed, I want to see a situation where every county, particularly volatile counties in areas where we have repeated restless inter-communal rifts, areas close to international borders where we have sometimes disturbances and raids from our neighbours and areas where there are constant tensions--- If you look around this country, you will know that at every election time, there is trouble in Trans Nzoia, Kipkaren, Coast and other areas which we know. Those must be areas of focus. Not for them to go there and compromise people’s rights, but do a job and make sure that what we saw in 1990---"
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