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    "id": 442430,
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    "speaker_name": "June 17, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 38 Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. When we stand here to talk about our security problems, I think we should remember where we have come from because that is what we are now harvesting. What we planted so many years ago is what we are harvesting. Quite a number of things have happened in this country, but people have taken it very easy. In some cases, they seem to be throwing words against each other without going into the details of the problems. First, we have failed and we are unable to control corruption in this country. What does corruption lead to? When you allow corruption to go as far as the highest office in the State, what do you expect? I think those who are suffering like the few officers who have been sacked after the Mpeketoni incident are just by the way. The persons who ought to have suffered are still enjoying in their offices. It is a shame that we should be turning our face to the smallest person in this country; the person who has no defender, who cannot speak for himself and you live giants sitting on sofa sets in their offices. We know for sure that we have failed to stop road carnage because of corruption. We have failed to stop cattle rustling which has now become a business. How can you stop people all the way from Ethiopia or Somalia to bring in explosives like they did when they brought a well organized explosive car filled with gadgets to create havoc in Mombasa? We have roadblocks everywhere which are nothing, but money collecting centres. Therefore, we must all agree that we will continue to suffer no matter how much facilitation we are going to give to the police or the people who are in charge of security in this country. Unless you change the leaders in charge of all these offices, not by sacking them, because that could be an option, but by changing their heart to know that they are in this country for others and not for themselves, the situation will not change. All these people who are receiving money from the Government as a salary are getting this money because they are there to defend the people of Kenya. They are paid a salary every month so that they can protect the people of Kenya. The big question is whether they are actually doing their job. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Motion that I moved here sometimes ago and I am most grateful that hon. Senators passed it, was to seek for a central point where we shall change the mentality of all the people working in the security system. They must change their ways. Security cannot only be handled by people who are trained. If you want to be secure, you do not have to be trained because your neighbour also wants to be secure and so we should be very careful not to let anything bad happen against your neighbour and yourself. Drug trafficking is a crime that has been accepted as normal and I cannot see the end of it. There is no way that you are going to stop it. Why is this so? It is because there is no crime in any state that can thrive the way that drug trafficking has thrived in this country, without having fellows on top of things. In normal circumstances---"
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