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    "content": "that we are witnessing now, sometimes we fail to know whether we should sing with dignity, honour and pride that this is our motherland. Looking at some of the challenges that have been stated, we should come up with revised strategies that can make sense in the lives of Kenyans today. Terrorism which was not there before is now a real threat. We have been told that these terrorists and foreigners find their way into this country and sometimes we hear that our young people have been taken to some training grounds outside this country. This sends a bad signal to all of us. We wonder where our security intelligence officers are to detect those who are disturbing the peace that has always prevailed in Kenya to the extent that we can have some people simply walking into the country and causing trouble, like they did at the Westgate Mall and yet the mall is right in the heart of Nairobi. We keep hearing that these terrorists came all the way from a neighbouring country which is many kilometres far away from here and they passed so many villages in order to reach here using vehicles. Where are our security agents when this is happening? Our policemen are always on the road and we wonder what they check. Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, nowadays, I am surprised that when you enter the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), our security officers usually open boots of vehicles to check whether there is anything unfamiliar entering the airport. These kind of reactionary security measures are making us a laughing stock of everybody. We have the borders separating the five countries that neighbor us but we do not know who comes to our soil from the neighbouring countries. We used to say that Kenya is a land of peace in the midst of turmoil and troubled states. We continued languishing in that state till we forgot that we needed to protect our land. If you try to find out how they enter the country, sometimes we are told that they do so by vehicles. It is not shocking that we hear tales that they bribed their way in, and the Kenyans who are supposed to safeguard our security took bribes from them. Our security officers at the top, starting from the President of the Republic of Kenya, should come up with a serious strategy on how national security can be enhanced. The Mover has also talked about the lives of Kenyans not being guaranteed on the road. When you leave your home alive, sometimes you do not reach where you are going because of road carnage. We need to ask ourselves what has gone wrong when we talk of road carnage. There are the famous “Michuki Rules” that have been put in place but we do not practise them. The reason we refer to them as such is because the late Michuki was very firm when he was the Minster that he could not compromise at all. However, those rules are no-longer being followed. I am surprised that we now have the latest methods of containing road carnage. It does not make sense that public vehicles do not travel at night. I do not know what is different on the same road at night and during the day. There should be rules on how this can be managed. There are places that you can find joy and pleasure travelling at night so that you can reach where you are going. Madam Temporary Speaker, it looks like Kenyans are very good at reacting when a problem has come up and they come up with some funny strategies that sometimes do not last. Because of what is happening, our security officers copied and pasted some of the rules our neighbours are employing. We are now talking about Nyumba Kumi . What is Nyumba Kumi ? That you are supposed to count ten houses and put somebody to watch over them. Will this be with a salary or without? I wonder whether we know what we are 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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