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    "id": 451497,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shill",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elias Bare Shill",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I really support the President’s Address. I want to speak on security and I would like Members of Parliament and other Kenyans to take security as their own initiative. This is because security is our concern. When the Government has rolled out the Nyumba Kumi initiative we are all laughing at it. Surely, how many Members of Parliament know their citizens? I can say none. The other day when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded on the fellow who was preparing it, a police officer said that there was some activity going on in House No.6 and House No.9. This was after the thing had happened. We never heard him say who the owner of the house was. Why did they give tenancy to such a tenant? Was there any record? Were there any neighbours who knew something about this? These are some of things that are failing Kenyans. We cannot just sit back to wait for the Government to help us instead of helping ourselves. Look at the Governments that existed before we promulgated the new Constitution, the District Security Committee used to work perfectly. These days we have the Administration Police (AP), the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the CID. These people do not work together. They are really fragmented. Who caused that? It was the Tenth Parliament that caused that. We started making laws that were civil-society orientated to a point where the DCs or the County Commissioners have no say. Even recently, in this Eleventh Parliament, we passed an amendment to the Traffic Act stating that any police officer can do the job. Look at what is happening on our roads, when you drive from Kisumu to Nairobi you will see so many APs on the road because that is where they can eat. Corruption is what has “killed” us. Corruption does not only exist in the Government; it starts with an individual. Look at our neighboring country, Ethiopia. Ethiopians are more patriotic than Kenyans. In that country you will see a police officer who is underpaid, but he does not compromise the security of his country. This is because he has patriotism at heart. Here in Kenya we care about what is for us and not patriotism. That is a fact and we must redeem ourselves. We are blaming the police and the Government. I am sure that many of us, when we wake up, we think of how we will make money. It is a fact. This is something that is in the blood of Kenyans. We are not taking our security very seriously. The cost of living has gone up. We know that our people are faced with this problem and still insecurity has put them in fear. Even the poor guy cannot work for his day to day to living. This is because he fears he will be killed any time. There is fear because of insecurity. People cannot even go to mosques or churches today. 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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