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    "id": 442926,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. We, as the Senate, are here to defend the counties and ensure that they take off. But what we are discussing is what is required before anything can take off. Without security, we will have no country, counties and there will be no development. Those of us who come from those areas which at times become insecure know that when the security of a human being is threatened, he or she forgets everything and ends up protecting himself or herself. Maybe that is where Kenyans are right now. We cannot have any development. This is the most important thing that, we, as leaders, must address before we can talk of developing our country or protecting the counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, currently, we are talking of cases of insecurity throughout the country. Now, anybody with any idea of trying to achieve some ulterior motives will look at what is going on around and if somewhere, somebody has created insecurity – maybe he has killed people and no action has been taken – it emboldens the others. That is how it used to be in Marsabit, Mandera and it is now even at the Coast. We are even surprised that the other day when this incident occurred in Mpeketoni, the Government came out very strongly; we thought that the issue will be sorted out. But even up to today, we still get messages that there are more killings. So, it is as if the criminals in this country or those who are out to derail development have realized that our security system is not working. That is where we need to fix. First of all, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think whoever is in our intelligence system has to wake up and realize that other than being an intelligence officer; he or she is also a Kenyan. They owe all of us that responsibility of making this country secure by getting the right intelligence information at the right time and passing it on to the right people who can act on it. That seems to be lacking. We are being told that information has been passed on and nobody has acted on it. Even though we have the security forces, they need to take their work seriously. So long as we have the problem of insecurity, however much the people in charge of security talk and tell us that it is not them who are responsible, we will still hold them accountable because that is what they are being paid for. 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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