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    "id": 382397,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion by Sen. G. G. Kariuki which is very timely. The Motion is coming at a time when we have very many incidences of insecurity in our counties. Insecurity has become a serious threat in the development and achievement of Vision 2030 that we aspire to achieve as a nation. In some counties, insecurity has become a real menace to development. It is now four months since devolution took place. The budgets for the county governments are being passed. Soon, the Government will be releasing funds both to the national and the county governments. However, to settle down and propose plans for every county, one major threat that should be faced head on by this Senate is to stand in the gap. The national Government which is in charge of security should begin to work closely with the county governments in particular the governors to ensure that insecurity is checked. In some cities and towns like Nairobi and Nakuru, gangsters raid people’s homes and people on the roads to the extent that workers are not secure. I remember of an incident that happened a week ago at Nakuru Town. A very senior member of Egerton University was murdered by thugs, Dr. Jesse Mwangi. We lost a very senior person in our country, somebody who did Mathematics from the beginning to the end. We do not have a replacement to that person just because of some loose people in our society. We do not know where they get weapons. This Motion comes at a time when we need to have all the estates where people live to be well lit. I hope that both the national and the county governments will make sure that these estates have security lights on the highways and inside. We also need to form security groups in the estates which should liaise with the police. I come from West Pokot where a few characters, we call them bandits who are extremely few, came and killed three people in Sarmaj in West Pokot County. This is at the border of West Pokot and Turkana County. For people who do not know, they can easily summarize and say that Turkanas are out to kill us and yet these are just a few loose people, characters and bandits who should just be treated as such. We need to think, as a Government - both the national and the county governments - seriously on how insecurity can be brought to a standstill. When I asked what happened in Sarmaj and why our security officers did not follow the bandits, they said that they had only three administration police officers at Sarmaj Camp. They have no vehicles and owing to this, they are experiencing many challenges on the ground. In supporting this Motion, I want to say that we need to support security in totality so that we do not look at ethnicity as we address issues of insecurity. We must look at it and come up with ways to deal with it."
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