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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. First of all, I would like to send my condolences to the victims of these brutal acts and especially the recent one that happened in Likoni. I wish the young boy quick recovery from the bullet which is lodged in his head. I do not know if I should support it or oppose it, but this is a Report which has been brought to us. I really do not see a solution in it. The Committee did a good job in investigating and calling a lot of people who came before them. The Committee heard from Witness No.001, Witness No.002 and others. If the information given by these two characters was taken seriously, we would have saved a lot of lives. The informants even made a point of coming back to inquire whether anything had been done or not. Unfortunately, the officers did not do anything. If this is how we are going to handle issues in Kenya, we are headed to darker days. We are talking about security officers being demoralized. However, they should, at least, be doing the least, for example, taking information given to them seriously. Somebody reported that there were foreigners. They are taken to the cells and the DCIO behaves as if nothing has happened. We cannot prevent anything. With regard to the Registrar of Persons, in the rural areas to get an ID is a tall order because people there do not have money. However, a foreigner will come to Kenya and get an ID because he has brought in money. Corruption is eating our society. We will end up having so many disasters of this kind just because of corruption in our security forces. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have so many police officers. When I drive in town here, I see so many of them manning traffic lights which the Government has invested a lot of money in. We need to enforce the traffic rules so that drivers make use of the traffic lights and the police are deployed to patrol the vulnerable areas in our communities, for example, Eastleigh, the malls and so on. The Committee has brought a report to us and we are here to adopt it. I do not know if we are adopting it to go and file it somewhere and forget it. We are not seeing the way forward. Let the Committee go back to the drawing board and give us the way forward on this matter. The Kenya Defence Forces and the police should tell us what they are going to do about this. There should be co- ordination. Imagine a whole battalion of trained people going to shoot their brothers instead of shooting the enemy. Where were they trained? They, in fact, even walked out with water in paper bags."
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