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    "id": 406579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Musila",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this important Motion. I want to remind the House that the Mover of the Motion, Sen. G.G. Kariuki, was once in charge of internal security in this country and I was privileged, as a Provincial Commissioner, to serve under him. Therefore, the concerns that this Motion expresses are real. Over the last few years, this country has experienced serious insecurity in the country. Every day, there are stories that you cannot believe. In fact, it is so depressing when you watch news on television. The stories you hear and the scenes you see are very depressing. Therefore, it calls for a serious, comprehensive security review, as the Mover is suggesting, with a view to formulating strategies capable of containing crime and safeguarding national security interests. First of all, the welfare of all those people who are charged with the responsibility of looking after us must be given priority. Two days ago, there was a documentary showing the suffering of the police officers. These officers have no houses and we have been singing about it. There was even a Motion about two to three years ago, urging the Government to look into the welfare of police officers. Police officers are forced to share houses even when they living with their families. The police officers lack equipment. I even challenged a senior police officer who is supposed to be guarding us as we sit here and he has no weapon. When I asked him where it was, he told me that they are not available. So, what is he doing here pretending to guard us but when something happens, he will run away with us? The police officers have no guns. Many of them are walking around without guns, not because they are not allowed to carry them but because they are not in stock. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this country, crime goes unpunished because we have no laboratories that can determine who committed crime. We were shown some armouries which look like food boxes which children carry when they are going to school. There is clear negligence of the security systems. If you look at the number of police officers who were killed in Baragoi, they were 42 in number and all their firearms were taken. To date, the Government has not made any effort to recover those weapons. These are the weapons now being used by the communities to fight one another. In Kitui County, where we border Tana River, every week, we have people crossing over, killing our people and the Government does nothing. The Chairman of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs is here and I have raised these matters with him many times. I have asked him specifically to tell me; during the last four years there are so many people who have been killed and the police officers have not been able to arrest or even take a single one to court. All they say is that the matter is pending investigations. This is because of police laxity. The police have resorted to taking the law into their hands. People are, at any given opportunity, taking the law into their own hands to punish the people they think have committed crimes. This is because the security agents are unable to arrest criminals and charge them effectively. Therefore people want to take the law into their own 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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