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    "content": "States of America (USA) solve this? They do not have roadblocks but only mount one when there is a criminal on the loose and is supposed to be blocked on specific highways. Otherwise ordinarily, all these police officers who are wasted at roadblocks doing nothing apart from collecting money are reduced to only one police officer in the USA called a speed cop. A speed cop is given a very powerful BMW motor bike and he can chase you until he makes sure that you account for whatever mistake you might have done while driving. They have also tried to police using helicopters and this has been tried in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town. Given the importance of security, this is a small investment which we should do Madam Temporary Speaker, the second point I want to mention about deployment of police is what I see at traffic lights in Nairobi. Two things struck me; one in Eastleigh, an old Kenyan of Arabic descent has bought himself a whip and maintains very serious order and nobody pays him. He does a better job on the traffic lights in Eastleigh than all the police officers we see here who collect bribes. As soon as Governor Kidero came into office, he has attempted to bring City County Askaris at the traffic lights. If this can be experimented and it looks like it is successful, then we can free police officers who stand at those traffic lights and leave this little work to the those City County askaris. Those of you who have gone to Madrid in Spain - I normally go there to witness bull fighting - they have the Madrid City askaris, the equivalent of ours here and all they do is stand there with a very loud whistle. The moment traffic goes green, he blows the whistle. As usual, people have strange habits; there are those who shave in the traffic, at the traffic lights, those who take breakfast and so on. So, when the whistle blows, people drive away. We should try what other successful cities are doing. Madam Temporary Speaker, because this is a matter of insecurity, there is an important thing that took place while we were on recess and which I would like all of us to reflect on, as Senators of this Republic so that we help the President and his Deputy in thinking about what is going on. This is the issue of insecurity which is brought by disputes over land. The insecurity we have in the Coast Province, the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), these people feel that their ancestral land has been taken away from them by us, people who come from upcountry. That is for real. When you go to South Coast and reach Ngomeni, the lands on your left which border the beach have title deeds but they are given to people from upcountry but the ones on the other side do not have. This is where you find the leadership of MRC complaining. I remember I paid a visit to Mzee Mwamnwadzi, the Chair of MRC. I went to his home and found that he is an old man who represents the face of the disappointment, the shortchanging that the people of Coast Province have gone through. Therefore, I want to use this Senate to tell the President that he should read the Constitution. We created commissions so as to remove some of the powers from the President. The National Land Commission was to remove land matters from the President to the Commission so that the situation where the President used to roam the country dishing out land to his friends and senior officers in the army could end. So, when I see our good President again giving title deeds without doing an audit of who is going to be the beneficiary, he is taking us back to the old Constitution that we removed. Under this new Constitution, the President has no power to give anybody a title deed or a piece of land. Let them read the Constitution because we know that even the so called 60,000 title"
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