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    "content": "All this time I thought he was with us but all the same, a friend is a friend. We are a developed society and we should not take any party member to be an enemy. We should work with everybody else and we should have friends from either party because if we want to develop this country, we do not have to have friends only from within certain parties. We have seen terrorism bring countries down. We have realized that our country has been under threats of late. We must realize that some of the jobless young people have been convinced and lured into these activities. Some very young innocent people have been involved in these activities. So, we must try as Government to create jobs so that we can control these young men. This is because some of these young men are influenced because they have nothing to eat or live on. That is exactly why they are involved in such activities. It is because they are paid some little money here and there for whatever reasons that are known to these terrorists. At the same time, we have had a lot of problems because we have so many guns in the wrong hands. In fact, the Government must now try to get back these guns from the hands of the wrong people and ensure that we make use of the security to look after the people. The guns we give to home-guards and others to try and guard the others have really caused problems to the extent that we do not even know who is, really, a home- guard and who is a terrorist. Some of the tourists who come here get threatened when they see our people walk around with guns on their shoulders as if they were walking sticks. They put them on the shoulders as they look after the animals. They are not licensed. Mtu anatembea nabunduki on his shoulder and the television cameras pick that. How do we have things like these happening in a civilized country like ours? These guns must be mopped up and taken away from these people. Let them use sticks if they want or spears if they are Maasais like him. Guns are dangerous things that should not go into people’s hands anytime. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have to find a way of getting these guns out of the wrong hands so that we can be protected by the security personnel. It is also high time we came up as leaders and gave our security agents, particularly, police officers, support. We have not been able to support the police as much as we could. The police are doing a lot of work in safeguarding this country. However, whenever a policeman is killed, we politicians do not come out to support them. In fact, if a thug is killed somewhere we tend"
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