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    "content": "just a Committee to come here and no written report about our national security is generated? Or is it just going to be like any other Committee? Madam Temporary Speaker, we need a group of very serious people in this country, particularly from the Senate, to sit down and decide on which way to go. Even if we have to employ a security expert to be paid by the Senate to advise this country in terms of what the Senate says could be useful for our security arrangement in this country. I think we need to move from where we have been all the time. At one time, I was in charge of national security. In those days, politics was not so much about messing up our security. But now, from 1987, our security personnel became tools of the politicians. They went further to become very good implementers of corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is very difficult for us to really see the way our security is set up in this country. We do not have any hope that our security will help us unless somebody somewhere – if not the Senate – will have the mandate and power to change what has been happening all these years. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are talking about home guards, not police reservists. Now, we are talking about a very small part of the problems. In some areas like Laikipia, Baringo and Pokot, it is a very difficult matter. Again, you will find that the people in Samburu District or county have been given home guards. Laikipia County neighbours Nakuru, Samburu, Baringo and Isiolo. All these people are enjoying the security of home guards. But Laikipia has become an open site where even home guards from Baringo and other places come in and take away our animals. So, Madam Temporary Speaker, this matter needs a very serious discussion by the Committee, of which you are also a Member. Let us see whether we can actually come up with a law; if not a law, anything that will supplement our security in this country. It is only in this country where you find people being gunned down on the streets. People have created an environment in which you live like you are in a prison, because you have put all the facilities to make sure that when you get into your house, you close yourself in so that no thief or murderer would be able to come in. But now thieves have become cleverer than that. They wait for you at the entrance of your door. But why should this happen in an Independent Kenya for the last 50 years? What is our priority? Is it security or tourism? Is it security or agriculture? Unless we change our priorities and the perception of our economic and security development in this country, I think we will continue to suffer. There is no indication that this problem is coming to an end. It is increasing, whether you have devolved governments or whatever else you have, you have not devolved the mind of the people; the people are still the same. Nowadays if you have a problem, you wonder whether you are going to call the police or your neighbour. Sometimes you prefer your neighbour because he might come and help you. But with the police, you do not know whether he is among the guys who are coming to kill you at night. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the time has come when we must look at our security again and see whether we are going to survive or not. But in this country, you will find a whole Minister, the President or whoever else, talking about how we have developed this country. You cannot even develop your family if that family has no security. I think it is important that we bring a Motion or a law to start this ball rolling and see whether we can get anywhere. This country has failed totally in terms of security. The last Coalition Government did nothing, but to create more and more confusion in the"
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