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    "content": "This country has of late witnessed unprecedented incidences of insecurity. There seems to be nothing being done to ensure that our citizens are safe. Our mandate, as the Senate, is to protect the counties, the residents of the counties that we represent and the whole country. We cannot say that we are protecting them if every day we see and read in the media that people have been killed and maimed on the scale that it has happened in Bungoma. I want to say pole to my neighbouring people of Bungoma and Busia counties. This seems to be spreading and because of shortage of time, there are many things I would have said but will not. However, there is something definitely wrong in the way that policemen are recruited, trained and in the manner that they execute their mandate. I support the idea that it is time that county governments took over some of these responsibilities. Under Section 187 of the Constitution, the Central Government can cede or delegate some authority to the county governments. The surest way to ensure that there is security in the local area is to make sure that citizens participate in ensuring their own security. In the neighbouring countries, for example, Tanzania, Uganda or even Rwanda, they have systems called Kumi kumi, Lords Resistance Army (LRA) or whatever you may want to refer to them. However, these systems work. Our country must look at how it can involve people and not to take foreign policemen to areas that they do not understand. We are talking about “foreign” in terms of the localities. We should recruit some policemen to work in the areas that they come from because they are familiar with the area. I support."
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