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"content": "Terrorism is at war with our civilization. The aim is to destroy the civilisation of a free world, the democratic world and replace it, if possible, with a very primitive and authoritarian theocratic state. They are not real believers of any religion. As a matter of fact, if this was about religion, the Al Shabaab would not be fighting the Government of Somalia because they are all Somalis. They are all Muslims, but they kill one another daily. They commit heinous crimes against their own people. In fact, if this was about tribalism or anything like that, the people of Rwanda would not have fought against one another because they belonged to one community, one religion and spoke one language. There is something that is competing for space in the world. These are people who are resisting civilisation or the democratic free world as we know it and want to replace it with another system of governance for the international community. Of course, the tool they use is terror. Terror has more power than a real war. If somebody hit one of us in this room, but we did not see where the person was hit from, that would cause more harm than if we knew it was Sen. Kajwang who had hit Sen. Obure because that way you can deal with it. However, if it came from somewhere you did not know, that would cause terror. The reaction is very primitive and desperate. So, what will we do? The only way is to protect our civilization. The Constitution has done it for us. The only way way to do so is to enforce the Constitution. The Constitution has divided this country down to a village Government. If you look at the Constitution properly, you will see that this applies up to the village level. At the village level, everyone knows one another. If there is a group of elders at that village; whether voluntary or people who are paid some stipend, our forces should be able to use them to keep track of things. Our intelligence should know what is happening in every village at any time if it is against our interests. However, we cannot run security the way we are running it and survive in this kind of situation. We have left everything to the security forces who deal with issues at the top level. How are they supposed to access information? How many are they? People would know where to go because there would be a government at the village, ward level and at the sub county levels. People would consult on a daily basis about their own security. I was the Minister for the defunct Ministry of State for Immigaration and Registration of Persons and I know how difficult it is to divide between the person who applies genuinely as hon. Sen. Billow Kerrow was saying and someone who says that he is the son of Sen. Kerrow, but is not. The person is completely new, but has somebody in the village saying “this is my son” and writing affidavits saying “yes, this is my son,” and yet, he knows that, that is not his son. The village elders also say that they know him, yet they know that, that is not a Kenyan. It is extremely difficult. The only way to avoid this is to go back and energize the village governments, so that they take responsibility for whoever comes from amongst them, whom they know or do not know. Even cities can be divided into villages. Buru Buru Phase 1 can be a village and Buru Buru Phase 2 another village, with their own governments. Eastleigh can be divided into villages with community leaders. If that is done, this insecurity will be contained. It must be contained by the people themselves and not by the security forces alone. If you divide this country into two; the security forces and the people, and leave the people here to be protected, there will be no protection. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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