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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity. I want to thank the Senate Minority Leader for bringing this particular Motion which was triggered by what has happened in Bungoma and Busia counties. I represent Busia County in this Senate. Busia County is a cosmopolitan county which even escaped what happened in 2007/2008. It is a very peaceful county because we believe in unity in diversity. These are people who believe in peace. So, for it to happen in Busia County, is a wakeup call for the entire country to look very critically at issues of national security. Sen. Wetangula has outlined the incidences and I will not go into them. Sen. Lesuuda has spoken very well on how people are suffering. So, I will not go into that. I will just go straight into the issues of national security in this country. The right to life is the most fundamental right of them all. In fact, without this right to life, all other rights are meaningless. There are a few questions that we should ask. We have had police reforms in this country, so let them not be confined only to changing people at the leadership level when the rest is the same. Reform must take into account the issues of recruitment. In Busia County, we have had instances of police officers being involved in criminal activities. That is a warning signal. When I say criminal activities, I mean the violent crimes like robbery and so on. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you talk about reforms, has the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) been reformed properly? That is a question that must be asked because at Independence, and I think Sen. G.G. Kariuki will confirm, our CID was almost like Scotland Yard. Nothing went wrong. Today this does not happen. What we are seeing is when police are defeated in investigating a particular crime they impute politics. If a politician has done that thing, to me, he is no longer a politician. He is a criminal who should be investigated, convicted, tried and put in. So, I do not want to hear that it is politics causing the problems. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us talk about the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS). What are they doing? Why can they not warn us when these gangsters want to strike? If you look at the sequence of happenings, you will see that the senior officers will go there and when they go away it happens again. When they come to Nairobi to meet with the Deputy President, again, it happens after that. Who are these 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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