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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is quite an opportunity for me to speak after the Chairperson of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations. The Senate gives us a fresh opportunity to assist the Government in rethinking its shift in terms of paradigm of insecurity. We have failed in the last 50 years in bringing proactive security in this country. We have also got it wrong when it comes to bringing reactive security. Most of you may understand that proactive security is when you capacitate the citizens to keep the peace. When His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta says that we are the less policed country, what does this mean? It means that we have done relatively well in proactive security. However, there is a direct correlation in terms of security and development and in terms of security and enjoyment of other fundamental rights. Security severs from the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. Therefore, there is need for this Senate to assist to shift the paradigm of security in this country. For the years I was at the Kenya Commission on Human Rights (KCHR), I always urged Government to do things differently when it came to insecurity. They are too conventional, archaic and outdated. I think that shifting paradigms of security is the democratisation of security, meaning that you have more citizens’ participation in security, but arm citizens with the confidence of the security apparatus so that they assist 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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