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    "id": 426578,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "In the Report it is said that the planning of the Westgate attack was done at Kakuma Refugee Camp. The question is this: How did those people enter this country? Where did they get passports from? Some of them had work permits. All this is done at the Department of Immigration. It is high time this House debated this objectively, so that a radical action is taken. We want to thank His Excellency the President and the Leader of CORD. At the time of the Westgate attack, we saw the leadership of both Jubilee and CORD come out. They went there and we want to move together as a team. This is not an issue to do with whatever coalition you belong to; we are talking about the security of this country. We need to know these terrorists. We do not know the number and Kenyans are asking questions. Many people doubted this Committee but it had able Chairmen. It is high time we are told who the terrorists were. Did they die? How many were they? Where are their bodies? Those are basic questions we expected this Committee to have answered; unfortunately when we go through this Report, nothing comes out. We have a vague report, which has generalized issues; it is difficult in terms of implementation. We ask ourselves: Where is Kenya going? This is the time we concentrated on the aspect of security. When it comes to the Budget, we give a lot of money to the security agencies. In the Supplementary Budget, they wanted more money. We have seen many hon. Members facing insecurity even in Karen; it is unsafe there. Where are we heading to in this country as far as security matters are concerned? This is the time we should come together, put our heads together, speak without fear or any intimidation, so that we can have measures in place to control the aspect of security. Hon. Speaker, on the issue of refugees, one of the recommendations is that we must close all the refugee camps. Every decision has a risk. There is no decision which is 100 per cent perfect. If at all the refugees are the people who come to terrorize this country, we support that the refugee camps be closed. We must do a cost benefit analysis. Kenya has been humanitarian enough. We are keeping a lot of refugees in this country; if they are coming to this country to cause terrorism everywhere, and terrorize everybody including churches--- Now you cannot even go to church. We are requesting the Government to provide security in churches. Some of us who are churchgoers are worried. Even the Muslims are worried. So, what are we going to do as far as worshiping is concerned? It is high time the Government provided security. Even the Government is not in safe hands. As I conclude, I want to thank my Chair; I know they did a good job but they should do a bit of improvement. When I say this, it is to provide room for improvement. There is continuous improvement. There needs to be consistency in the Report. I want to thank the National Intelligence Service (NIS); the report and the evidence that was given showed that the NIS is on top of things. We saw the evidence they provided. They had actually warned the security agencies in Nairobi that we were going to have attacks in shopping malls, especially the ones owned by Israel. The evidence was there! As a Member of the Committee, we saw it. I want to congratulate the NIS for the good work. But we also need to have proper co-ordination when we have a disaster; we were told that there was a commandoes department which had tried to control the situation but when the military got in, there was problem. I reluctantly support the Report. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}