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    "id": 427449,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether he bought or rented them. However, he paraded them. These vehicles have been given to the police to perform a national function. I am sure he has not been allowed to chair the security committee and even to superintend over the enjoyment of those vehicles. I have seen this happening in Mombasa as well. We must ensure that we do not operate on panic buttons that the Jubilee Government is using in cordoning estates and carrying out night raids which are criminal in nature. They are swooping people, taking them to Kasarani and keeping them in cages like chicken. If they could listen to grassroots leaders, consult, invest and use intelligence to arrest crime we would not be having the circus that is going on in the security sector. Simply because an incident has happened, you cannot just become like a reckless fisherman who casts his nest in the lake while it does not matter whether you catch a crab, omena, mbuta or ngege . That is how security is managed. We want to see proper structures and everybody being involved so that we manage our security. A County Police Commissioner will be sent to Siaya, a place he has not been and the following day, he is busy chairing meetings of what he does not know and yet the Governor is there, someone who was popularly elected by the people. He is the one who receives information from the people and can help him mount security. My last point is on the trans-county boundary resources. I heard Sen. Murkomen and Sen. Kembi-Gitura, as I drove here, talk about the issue of water in Ndakaini. Let it not be lost to us that we are a federal state. We are a unitary state with devolved units. Both our domestic or municipal and international law protects the access and use of natural resources by communities to the extent that your brothers in Pokot County cannot block Murunyi and Turkwell rivers from flowing into Turkana just because they start 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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