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    "content": "money that we give them. They are shrouded in the secrecy of the Office of the President, and because of security reasons, you cannot audit it. The money comes and it just does what they do. We must hold everybody to account for their time, for their space, for their responsibility and for their duties. Secondly, we must ensure that Kenyans obey the law, regardless of who they are. One of the biggest contributors to challenges to security in this country is our courts of law where justice is for sale. I am sure these Members in their private offices there have been once or twice visited by their constituents who asked for money to go and bribe magistrates to be acquitted. I have been and I am sure many others have been. When such things happen and you see your poor neighbour selling an acre of land to go and buy justice for their loved ones who have fallen prey to the law, then you know we have a serious problem. These are some of the things we need to confront. You have seen in the coffee growing areas, when payments are made to farmers, criminals take charge. As you walk home with your money in the evening, you are told; “ toa ile pesa ”, and if you do not give them money, you are killed and yet we pay taxes for security. So, I would encourage those who will speak after me, if there is need to do so, to, in fact, amend the Motion and call for the need for a national conference to address matters of security, the challenges facing us, the modern day crime like cyber crime and the criminal empire that is run from Kamiti Prison. All the SMSs you get about winning lotteries that you have never participated in and others sending threatening messages, are all from Kamiti Prison. The other day, we saw in the media that in one afternoon raid, the prison officers recovered 3,600 sim cards in Kamiti Prison. Surely, if these are correction centres, how do they become cells for organized crime? Something is wrong somewhere and it has to be addressed. The reason people are sent to jail is to deny them the freedom and privileges that good citizens enjoy and give them an opportunity to be rehabilitated. But if you go to Kamiti and you continue running your empire as if nothing happened, then there is something wrong somewhere. We need to relook at our correctional services. At Bomas, I refused to call them correctional services. I said a prison is a prison. When you commit an offence and you are sent to prison, you go to prison. You do not colour it with a name that looks good when, in fact, you are in prison. When you go to there, you are corrected and correction still includes reward and punishment."
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