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"content": "the bus that killed about 50 people on the way to Narok. What did we see? The Minister for Roads ran there and said: “No travel at night,” simply because the accident happened at night. That is not strategy. That is called kneejerk reaction to an otherwise very serious problem. Madam Temporary Speaker, I agree with my colleagues that now criminals are even more sophisticated. We have explosive devices and challenges from our neighbour, Somalia, a failed state that has given us challenges for the last over 20 years, where small arms and light weapons are brought into the country. We have seen what has happened in Eastleigh. Our colleague in the Lower House, hon. Hassan of Kamukunji, was disabled by an explosion in a hotel. These are things that are controllable. You will find that, that device may have come all the way from Kismayu or Mogadishu, through controlled borders, public transport and police checks until we lose lives. Madam Temporary Speaker, in fact, Sen. G.G. would have gone a little further to ask for a national conference on security, so that all leaders of goodwill in this country can come together. Security is not just about the President, the Inspector General or Commander of the Forces. It is about all of us. It is just as culpable for a citizen who sees a person who is dangerous and keeps quiet, as a policeman who takes money from a person who is dangerous and lets him go. We need to appreciate the value of life. Madam Temporary Speaker, cattle rustling has also been a serious problem. You saw what happened in the sugar-belt of Nyanza, where cattle rustlers walked into a home of a Member of Parliament, slaughtered his parents and walked away. Early last year, you saw what happened in Bungoma County, and I thank this Senate because I moved a Motion for Adjournment and got overwhelming support, when bands of marauding criminals went round the county maiming, killing, cutting and amputating arms from people. It was such a horrendous experience for the people of Bungoma, that we had to get our youths to form vigilante groups to bring sanity and order to our county. Sometimes it helps. Those of you who have watched a series of movies by some great film actor who passed away a year ago called Charles Bronson, called “Death Wish 1, 2, 3 and 4, where the police failed, he became the vigilante and tracked down all the criminals. There is another movie which you should watch, called “The Star Chamber,” starring Michael Douglas and Yaphet Kotto, where they formed a chamber. Criminals are taken to court, tried and when there is miscarriage of justice, they go to the Star Chamber and review the case, decide whether or not that man was properly acquitted and then mete out justice in accordance with the interest of society. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember one time I was in a court in Kibera and a suspected robber was on trial. A witness in the box was testifying how he knew the fellow and in the presence and full view of the magistrate, police and everybody, the criminal was telling the witness: “Continue talking like that; I will come out and you will see.” That meant that the criminal knew already that he would be acquitted, yet he was being charged with an offence that carried a death sentence. Indeed, I later followed the case. He came out and went and killed the witness. These are the challenges that we face. Madam Temporary Speaker, the security organs in this country must be more accountable to the people of this country. We vote money for them and you know very well that nobody audits our Forces. Nobody asks them to account. Nobody asks the Commissioner of Police to come to Parliament regularly to give us a full account of the 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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