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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I was just trying to broaden and I am really grateful for your intervention. This is a global issue and it must be positioned in the global context. Who are the key players in security matters in the global context who have got us into some of these problems that we are in? What are the causes? Why were we living peacefully 20 years ago, before August 1998? We need to interrogate some of these issues because they are fundamental issues. We, as legislators, must be guided by best practices in terms of our security management. We must strengthen our border patrols. If we want to erect walls, high fences or bring in the military to ensure that they guard it, then that will lead to victimization of people. We must strengthen our intelligence mechanism in terms of modern intelligence, crime fighting interventions so that by the time I am going for somebody, I am convinced with my intelligence that this is the right person. But to have a blanket suffocation of an institution and a nation is what will lead us to the reversal. I was never a victim of these excessive security measures, but some of you were; like Sen. Orengo and Sen. Kajwang. The country suffered immensely because of brute ambiguity around security and the preservation of State security. So, I think we must also temper that line so that we do not create a legislation that then gives a carte blanche for people to invade our fundamental rights on account of national security. You know national security presupposes an anger within society. When society is most angry, that is when it makes most mistakes. Even some of us must gather the courage to argue against the grain because it is fashionable right now to say that let us intervene, fight, arrest and jail, kill and assassinate because we are all now in a state of anger. But that is why the Constitution has no emotions; it is neither angry nor responds to a challenge of a certain context. It responds to challenges across time and generations. Through the times, that Constitution will continue to guide us. So, whatever must lead us to our actions, the Constitution itself was never fearful because it realized that in the chapter of national Security, Chapter 14, that if you safeguard national security and build a strong intelligent service and military and a professional police force, everything falls into place. So, the failure of one institution should not characterize the failure of the Senate to be reasonable and objective in its pursuit of the best interests of this society. So, I support that amendment and I think Sen. Haji has no problem with it as the originator of the Motion. It is important to preserve the objective of the original Motion, because if you in bring an amendment that waters down the objective, then I would have been reluctant to support it. It has also come from a person who knows the thick and thin of this country; Sen. Orengo. He has fought for this country substantially and, therefore, I believe that he believes in the cause of Kenyans, regardless of where they come from. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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