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    "content": "threat to internal security and liaise with the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife to jointly battle this menace of poaching that is undermining and threatening our heritage. A large portion of our foreign exchange earnings and employment is dependent on tourism. Many tourists come to Kenya not just because of our beautiful beaches, but our wildlife which once put under threat, threatens the entire economic fabric of our country. As you know, once these poachers are through with the elephants, they will turn to other species. They will start shooting lions, buffaloes and other animals. So, we really need to have the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security going beyond its known mandate and get rid of these poachers. Indeed, I want to urge that a law be brought to this Parliament to deal with poachers, the same way we deal with homicide cases. If somebody picks up a gun and goes on a frenzy of reckless slaughter of wildlife, he is not any different from the crooks who are throwing grenades in churches or social places like bars. We should tighten the law and deal with them exactly in the same way that we are dealing with cases of homicide. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I see that the Minister has put some paltry allocation to the Ministry of Trade. I want to encourage both my learned friend and any successive Minister to realize the importance of trade in the growth of the economy. You have to promote trade internally and externally, within the region and sub-region, if we want our economy to grow. The little money allocated to the Ministry of Trade is barely enough to assist in the growth of our trade. Mr. Speaker, Sir, 50 years down the line of our Independence, we still have too many Kenyans unable to access clean water. I would want to encourage the Minister that we must set a target, both through the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Water and Irrigation, by which time we should have all Kenyan women and families enjoying clean water in whatever form; whether through pipes, deep wells, boreholes and so on. We still have many Kenyans drawing water by the roadside pools, not to mention the attendant diseases that come with this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to finish by encouraging that the reforms that are going on in the Judiciary – I can see there is some allocation of some money as well - continues. I want to caution - and I am sure my learned senior, Mr. M. Kilonzo, Mr. Namwamba and the Minister himself had agreed - that we have a dangerous trend in this country where a judge makes a decision and the next day, you have mobs shouting that such a judge should be frog marched before a vetting process. Judges have the right to make mistakes as long as those are honest mistakes. That is why we have appellate processes. If a judge at the High Court makes a decision a litigant or anybody does not agree with, there is the Court of Appeal. There is ultimately the Supreme Court. The intolerance that we are seeing from certain sections of our society of mobs calling for lynching of judges who make decisions they do not agree with is something very dangerous for the rule of law in this country and something - I believe my learned colleagues who sit here agree with - should be discouraged. We really end up not only undermining the rule of law but frightening judges to the extent that they will be looking over their shoulders to see which mob is standing behind them before they make decisions. That is the foundation of injustice in any country. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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