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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Unless this very serious issues are addressed and I can see here money is being allocated to the security sector, to the police to buy vehicles, uniforms, gumboots, teargas and guns, basically addressing the hardware aspect of security management and ignoring the software bit, if I may call it so, will not help The problem we have with insecurity in this country is not necessarily the lack of hardware but the lack of proper intelligence and perhaps inappropriate consumption of that intelligence if at all it is there. Therefore, what we need to do is to continue--- The Government needs to give us a proposition on how it is going to complete the police reforms; the comprehensive police reforms that were initiated way back following the Ransley Report. That is the only solution to the problem of insecurity in this country. Therefore, when you look at these Estimates, you see a lot of gloom. The issue of absorption of development funds, this is an issue that has to be addressed. It has to be addressed because if funds cannot be absorbed for purposes of development year in, year out, then we are basically staring at a serious crisis. The reason why funds are not being absorbed are known and some of them are to do with corruption because people want to look for avenues to delay consuming funds so that they can get means of siphoning public funds. This has happened year in, year out. We also know, of course, the challenge of the procurement laws which this House can address at the right time so that public funds meant for development purposes are utilized at the right time for this country to grow. This country’s infrastructure is virtually collapsing and yet funds have been allocated year in, year out. That is an issue that the Budget and Appropriations Committee needs to take some time in future and tackle absolutely. In conclusion because I want to be very brief, what this country needs to do if we are going to grow as an economy, of course, is to look at our books; look at the revenues 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."
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