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    "id": 386105,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I want to thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this very serious Motion on the insecurity in our country. First of all, I would like to send my condolences and those of my county which is, at the moment, in apparent peace unlike in Bungoma County, to those who have lost their loved ones and their properties. I would like to lay the blame of insecurity on the Government. I say so because this country is not using intelligence-gathering to make sure that the country is at peace. This can be done if the Government is aware and sensitive to the early warnings. The early warnings would give us an indication that we will have trouble. There are some early warnings that I think - and have experienced this, in this country, occur before these things happen. The first is when there is an increased consumption of alcohol and illicit drugs in the country. Once this happens, this becomes an indication that something will not go right. This is an early warning. Secondly, you might think that this is not related, but there is increased poaching of wildlife going on in the country. Again, this you may think is unrelated, but it has always happened and, subsequently, been followed by incidences of insecurity. Of course, there is also the illegal trade in hard drugs. When you see these things happening; if the system in the country cannot detect them, then it is not paying attention to the early warnings in the country. I have been seeing those three things happening in the country. I am, therefore, not surprised that there is insecurity in the country because these things are happening. If we paid attention to the early warnings that are there all the time, then we would safeguard our citizens. Right now, we should be using the intelligence and not armed people. You could see that the people had been hurt and killed using crude weapons. These people who had gone to Bungoma are not foreigners, but people who are living among the communities there. We can only get to know them if we have intelligence on the ground. However, this should not be intelligence officers who appear in helicopters one afternoon and disappear late in the afternoon not to be seen again. The intelligence officers must be grounded. The county governments we are setting up must be given all the tools and the ability to collect information and take up early warnings, so that we can safeguard our citizens in the country. I beg to support the Motion."
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