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    "content": "games. What we, as a Senate, and as the representatives of the people of Kenya, want to do is to see a government that is protecting lives and properties of Kenyans. A case in point is the Wajir massacre. This is not something that one can say came unawares. The ethnic or the clan feuds between various clans in that region is something that is historical. Everybody knows about it, everybody feels it, everybody is capable of understanding it and everybody is capable of stopping it. Why do we let such things happen? Why are the organs of the Government not living to the expectations of Kenyans? With devolution, we have said repeatedly that security operations must be harmonized between county governments and the national Government. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in many counties, we still have parallel structures operating in different directions. You can only reflect on what you saw or heard from the Inspector-General ordering the Governors of Wajir and Garissa to be grilled by the police and to record statements when, in fact, these are elected leaders who should be in charge of security of their areas. Are they going to be grilled because people have died? Is it because they were involved in the deaths? Or is it because of dereliction of duty and which duty? For dereliction of duty to hold, there has to be a duty, in the first place backed, by law. We are also saying and it is painful to say this, that we want the Government in its response to calamities of this nature to be even to all communities, to all parts of the country and everywhere. Last year or the year before, we had terrible killings in Tana River. The Government sat in Nairobi and continued issuing statements upon statements upon statements, but we saw no action. You have seen in Wajir, no action. Today, I had a press conference where I castigated the Government for its action in Lamu, but that is not good enough because the deaths in Lamu are as important as the deaths in Tana River, in Wajir, in Mombasa, in Nyando, in Bungoma and everywhere. We want to see the Government being responsive to the plight of Kenyans in an equal and even manner. When the Mpeketoni massacre happened, the Jubilee Government nearly declared a state of emergency. We have no difficulty with that. It is a response that we expect any responsible government to do. The whole Government flew to Lamu. The ole Lenkus of this world and everybody was knocking each other in irrelevant press conferences, reading rehearsed statements that made no sense and so on and so forth. Look at what has happened in Wajir, Nobody is talking about it. We have been expecting the President to address the nation in the same vein, with the same pain, with the same passion, with the same anger that we saw him address the nation after Mpeketoni---"
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