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    "content": "carry mobile phones to ring the police. Sometimes information reaches and sometimes it does not. I think it is important that we restructure this. Madam Temporary Speaker, I would encourage the Mover of the Motion to find a way of anchoring this between the national Government and the county governments. Under the law, the governor has a duty to form a county security committee that includes the police and nominees from the county who will help him run security issues. So, this is not just about the national Government, but should be a form of collaboration between the county government and the national Government. The KPRs do a good job under very difficult circumstances. You give somebody a gun, like Sen. Kuti, the distinguished Senator for Isiolo has said, and then leave him loose to the community. If the community does not help him, there is no way any sensible person holding a gun can go hungry, when he can use it to get food. He can either sell the gun or use it as a tool to get what he wants. That temptation is real. There is a story which I have seen that links reservism to poaching. They have guns and nobody to command them or account to. Then, they are told that if you take a horn of rhino to the orient, you become a millionaire overnight. They will employ that gun. But if there is a command structure accounting for the gun they keep, the bullets that they are given and everything, then their deployment will be in a structured manner and these people can help communities. Madam Temporary Speaker, insecurity has retarded development in very many places like Turkana, West Pokot, Laikipia, Samburu and all the northern marginal counties. You will find that you live at the mercy of either raiders from competing communities or sometimes from the neighbouring countries. You know what goes on between our brothers in Pokot and Turkana counties. They live in mortal fear of each other. They just walk across the border and have this traditional belief that all cattle belong to them. So, they do not even believe that they are stealing. They believe that they are taking. Unless you have an organized security system, this taking of what is mistakenly believed to be theirs costs lives, disrupts families and communities. So, that is why I want to urge this Senate, although these Bills are not here, that this formulation of policy that the Senator is asking for in his Motion, will be best done by the National Police Commission; the very Commission that the Jubilee Government is struggling to kill. Madam Temporary Speaker, we must have the oversight Commission formulating policy and then giving to the Inspector General and his team to execute. I want to urge my colleagues in the Jubilee segment of this structures of Government, including the Mover of the Motion, the distinguished Senator for West Pokot, that you are preaching to the converted; tell those people on your side who are trying to kill the Kavuludi Commission, that it is that Commission that will formulate the policy that the hon. Senator is asking for and then, handover to the Kimaiyo wing to implement. That was the genesis of police reforms. We cannot have it all wrapped up in one. The Inspector General cannot be the one who formulates policy, disseminates it and implements it. We cannot do things like that because they are not done like that in organized societies. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to encourage that the Police Service Commission takes up the responsibility of formulating this policy. The national Government and county governments in collaboration should provide for enough funds for this. Then we should get all the community policing groups under the command of the"
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