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    "content": "where they find us sitting with our families and they are not after anything else, but just to kill because they have been given some money. This is a matter of grave concern. Let whoever wants to challenge what I am saying do so, but let us stand firm and be counted. I have a Motion which is coming before the Floor of the House on the same issue and that is why I thought I should not contribute to this Motion. I was going to draft a Motion which will touch on the entire national security situation in this country. I have done a lot of research and I really do not know what we are going to do to have people at home feel secure. For example, in Laikipia County, we settled about 42,000 families who bought their own farms. It is not the Government which settled them. The former Provincial Commissioner (PC) who is here knows this very well. We spend a lot of money and bought about 380,000 acres and settled about 42,000 families. If you go there right now, you will only find 8,000 families left while others have been chased away as if there is no Government in this country. The law of trespass has been abandoned. In this country if you want to get protection, you should either be the President, a Cabinet Secretary, a Member of Parliament or a Senator. All these people have been elected by people who think that when we come here we forget about our lives and take care of them. If you were to do some small mathematics and multiply 400 Members of the National Assembly by two askaris, you are talking about 800 askaris surrounding them. If you talk about the 67 Senators here and each one of you has one or two askaris; one here and the other at home, they are 134 askaris in total. What does that show? Is it that we are running a desperate country where the rule of law is not respected and that is why we cannot feel secure? That is why Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and I want to be protected. Who is protecting other Kenyans? It is a very sad situation and we cannot even be ashamed. We just look at people dying because they are not privileged. Madam Temporary Speaker, this matter is very serious. I was in charge of security in this country and I know where the problem started. I am convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that unless you do a complete overhaul of the armed forces in this country, we are not going to get anywhere. We are in such a terrible situation. Here we have people whom we have employed to promote Kenya abroad forgetting that those people have eyes and they know that we are incapable of protecting them, but we still want the foreign tourists to come. When you see a country starting to think about employing private guards and yet you have people in uniform with all the authority who are being paid by the Government, we are simply heading nowhere. Sen. Musila would remember the time when he was a Provincial Commissioner this matter would be taken very seriously, but at the moment, we are dealing with this matter casually. We have allowed politicians to transfer police officers from one place to the other. If you allow, for example, an Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) to misbehave because Inspector-General is misbehaving in terms of corruption, where are we heading to? Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a matter of great concern. Today you will find the so called County Commissioners just sitting in their offices; they do not have jobs to do because they have no power over the police or the chief. In fact they look for jobs from the chiefs. Jobs which were being done by chiefs are now being done by County Commissioners and former district officers. This is because they have no authority to direct the police on what to do. If he tries to direct the police officers, they turn against 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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