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    "id": 442864,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point I was emphasizing was – I believe the House got me – that we want even and equal response to calamities. You have heard Cabinet Secretary, Waiguru, saying that she is going to rebuild the homes of the people in Mpeketoni and that she is sending money there. We were shown the people of Baringo in total destitution, but she has said nothing about Baringo. She has said nothing about Bungoma, Nyando and everywhere else. We are saying that whatever is done to one community must be done to other communities and every individual in Kenya because these are public funds from taxes that wananchi pay. The distinguished Senator for Tana River can tell you that – I go to Tana River from time to time for my politics – the people who were killed and displaced in Tana River still remain destitute to today and nobody talks about them. We have forgotten about them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, as we cried here last week about the inadequacy of performance of our security organs, everybody here said that our Inspector-General, the Director of National Intelligence Security (NIS), and the Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), are sleeping on the job. What do we see? The President has given even more powers and responsibilities to an already inept Inspector-General. He cannot handle the police force whereas he is now being given the National Youth Service (NYS), the Administration Police (AP) and other formations. They have been loaded on a man who cannot carry the small load that he is carrying today. This is not how to run our security systems and this is why we are having these endless massacres of Kenyans and we come out to carry postmortems and make statements that touch people’s hearts and do nothing to give them security and life goes on. We are in the comfort zones of Nairobi protected by the security agencies but people out there do not know when they wake up, whether they will go to sleep. They do not know when they go to sleep, whether they will wake up. I want to urge this House that it is time now even for this Senate, as a institution that protects counties, to probably have a retreat with our governors and call in these security agencies and see how we can pull the synergies available together to protect Kenyans and stop this ongoings that are causing endless losses of lives in our country and that is making us look like a laughing stock in the region. I urge that your office helps 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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