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    "id": 404950,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G. G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, aware that national security is prerequisite for maintaining a stable nation state; concerned that Kenya continues to be confronted by factors that threaten national security such as terrorist attacks, road carnage, cattle rustling, inter-ethnic conflicts, food shortage and floods; further concerned that various forms of threats to national security, such as cyber-crime and terrorism, constantly mutate thereby posing a challenge to security organs; appreciating the efforts of successive governments to safeguard national security; noting with concern that despite the efforts insecurity continues to increase; further noting that no security review has been carried out since independence to forge a common strategy on safeguarding national security; the Senate urges the national Government to constitute a Committee to undertake a comprehensive security review with a view to formulating modern strategies capable of containing crime and safeguarding national security interests Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the way this Motion is framed is self-explanatory but because we have to debate it and go further to some points that may not have been raised in the Motion, I beg your permission now to move on and discuss national security. I am using the definition as authored by Prof. Charles Maier of Harvard University, who described national security as capacity to control those domestic or foreign conditions and public opinion of a given community which are believed to be necessary to enjoy its own self-determination or autonomy, prosperity and well-being. Another definition which is also relevant to this Motion, before we move on is from Probakaras Parell, author of the book; The National Security, Imperatives andChallenges . It is also useful because it defines national security as a state of capability of a nation to overcome the most dimensional threat to the apparent well-being of its people and its survival as a nation or state at any given time by balancing all these instruments, state policy, through governance. This is not the end of the people I would like to refer to. There are others like Hann Morgan, which I am sure having read constitutional law, you may be familiar with, and also my 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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