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    "content": "Politically instigated crimes must occupy security agents’ minds because it could degenerate to irreversible conflicts for many years. So, the problem in our country is political crime is not taken very seriously because if it were, things like tribal clashes will not have happened. These are crimes that were instigated by politicians, but everything remained there. Most of the time, a statement is issued by police, the Minister or Government official, you wonder whether we are in the right country because time is now that political problems should be dealt with politically. The rule of law needs to take shape immediately. Otherwise, we are going to keep on talking about crimes and our minds are directed to what the public may do, but not what the politician does. This is a matter of grave concern. If you look at our set up today, after the new Constitution was promulgated, you will see that there are several commissions which have been formed. These commissions are formed because we, as the Government or police, are unable to control and contain corruption and many other crimes or abuse of offices. The money which is paid to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Ombudsman is not necessary if we were keen to deal with security matters. If we were keen to support our security agents, we would have given them enough. If we did not politicize them, we would not have needed to have all these commissions. Why do we have the EACC? This is because the police, politicians and the people are not capable of dealing with the situation unless you create a commission which is not immune from corruption. I think we are going round in circles and it is unlikely that we will get anywhere. We are creating what we used to call “jobs for the boys” where somebody creates a commission or a certain institution to get his or her friend to manage the place no matter what happens. I think we need to shift our mind from this kind of business which does not really help us. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think I need to say something about the history of our roads in this country. Now, the beginning of road making in this country started in 1936. All these roads which were created those days were intended to go where the White farmers were living so that their produce and everything else could be brought to the market without any problem. Now, all those kilometres were created during that time in 1936, that is when the railway line was still there up to Nakuru and then it was pushed to Malaba, Uasin Gishu, Nanyuki and Nyahururu, for that matter. The bitumized road was done in 1930. This was followed by several roads to serve mainly the tea growing areas. This was only where the White farmers were. Even when we took power from the British Government, we followed the same pattern. This situation was supported very strongly by the then Government under a certain Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 which really supported the past programme of road making. We are saying that we should now look at the security of the people of Kenya then everything else will come after that. By doing so, we are going to open up very important economic areas which are not considered now just because they are not delivering for the time being. After Independence, the Government published its policy with respect to development of infrastructure and mobilization of resources under Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 which stated:- “To make the economy, as a whole, grow as fast as possible, development money should be invested where it will yield the largest increase in the net output” That is our concern today. It continues:- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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