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    "content": "no serious emergency unit on standby in northern Kenya. That is why we find it discriminatory when it happens in other areas like where my good friend, the Whip, comes from, except that then I realised that he is not whipping enough. There are operators in this Government who can disregard a communication from the Prime Minister or some basic things. Putting hon. Nanok, the Assistant Minister, in prison for all that time is a shame. We are not interested in the business of police accommodation. Even they do not have their own accommodation. Why do they want to accommodate us? We are serious citizens of the Republic of Kenya. Let the media get these issues right. I am the National Chairman of AMANI Forum and I practise what I preach. I do not do things in a different way. We are not sure that the IDPs in this country could have solved the post-election violence problem. This Government is now creating more IDPs even before we have started on an election. We come from that kind of background, and we cannot allow any more situations to arise. If hon. Kapondi thinks that there is enough---. That is why he thinks that the Police Commissioner should not go home. He must go home. We have said that all the people must take responsibility. A story was aired on BBC the other day about a man who died many years but the head of the BBC resigned. The CIA Director-General has taken responsibility and resigned over an illicit affair, which had nothing to do with the job he was doing. But here we can sit straight and say that we are going to do something. I want hon. Kapondi’s Committee and others to investigate the following. In the case of Garissa, even the members of the Kenya Red Cross Society - one of those organizations in the country that still come out to help our people - were locked up in the compound and were denied a chance to go out and help the people. What was the intention? The intention was to inflict harm, destroy and kill. They should also investigate what there is in Turkana that they are getting its leaders. Is it because we have discovered oil and so they do not want a leadership that is telling them that these things must be shared to benefit the local community? So, they want to create their own kind of things; is this a situation similar to what happened between American and Panama? Why should this government arrest the people that it likes running to, namely a chief and a councillor? It arrests them always. The communities of northern Kenya raid each other. So, why do you pick councilors and chiefs from one community and not from others? I am not saying that others should also be picked. Nobody should be picked. Do further investigations and then arrest the real people that you know you are dealing with. I hope that what the security forces are doing is not an exercise to divert out attention. We still demand answers about what happened to the botched operation in Baragoi that made our police to lose 42 lives at a go. I cannot fathom. I cannot believe that it can even happen in that harsh environment. There is a problem. The Police spokesperson himself has admitted that it was a tactful error and when we say the same, we are taken to court. We demand answers from the police. You must protect your officers. You cannot have bodies in the valley for four five days and nobody has found them. This is still the Republic of Kenya and every corner of the Republic must be accounted for. We demand development in northern Kenya and our police officers and the members of our communities will not be losing their lives. That is the solution. That is what we demand."
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