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    "id": 382426,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, Wole Soyinka once said that a tiger does not need to shout about its tigritude. If, indeed, Jubilee is in power legitimately, they would not need to shout about it. Secondly, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) which is the body responsible for saying whether somebody is in power legitimately has failed to demonstrate that proper elections were held. There is enough evidence in the public domain to raise this issue. Nonetheless, let me go back to the Motion. I said that the colonialists were aware that security goes with authority and that is why they gave the chief a lot of authority at the grassroots through the Chiefs Act. The only thing that happened when we attained Independence was that the Chiefs Act was misused. The point behind the Chiefs Act is that in order for security, law and order and peace to be maintained at the grassroots, there must be legitimate power and authority. At the moment, I would like to plead for a Government infrastructure at the grassroots which will make sure that peace and security is maintained at the grassroots. Madam Temporary Speaker, therefore, it defeats any sense of logic to deny Governors or ward administrators, the authority to handle peace and security. If you have two parallel systems of governmental infrastructure at the grassroots level, you are going to have tremendous conflict at the grassroots and you are not going to have peace and security. So, however many roads you build or many telephones you provide, those will be made use of effectively by the same people who carry out security. Imagine there are good roads in the rural areas where drug traffickers can ride in Jeeps very comfortably, where thieves can whizz by very fast at a high speed and you do not have an infrastructure of Government to use those roads and infrastructure authoritatively for bringing peace and security, we are going to have a lot of problems. Therefore, the recent move by the Inspector- General of Police to say that it is upon him to appoint commanders who are going to work at the grassroots level and deny the elected personnel who should have this security personnel under them, so that they have authority to maintain peace and order, this is irrational. I would like to appeal to the Government, while building roads and providing telephones and all these things down there, which is important, governmental infrastructure geared towards maintaining peace and security be developed. The current approach of having somebody in Nairobi commanding heads of police at the grassroots level is not the best way to do it. We 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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