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    "id": 451949,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abongotum",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 165,
        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": "1. There was general information on the impending terror attack on all shopping malls and other strategic Western interests, especially in Nairobi County. The information was made available to the relevant security officers in Nairobi County. 2. There was general laxity amongst the police divisions over the terror alerts within Nairobi County. 3. An elite police squad from Recce Company of the General Service Unit (GSU) had contained the terrorists at one corner of the mall. However, there was poor coordination during the change-over to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) from and police units. 4. There was looting of business premises within the mall by individual security officers, and action has already been taken against the culprits. Some people had blamed me for having supported the KDF on this matter. I want to state that when we looked at the first CCTV footage at a session I chaired there was actually no looting. Subsequent CCT footages were shown when I was in Columbia. In the subsequent CCTV footages, there was evidence of looting. So, I want to apologise and state that I was not present when CCTV footages that showed looting were shown. 5. There was a nationwide or systemic failure on the part of the Immigration Services Department, the Department of Refugee Affairs and the Department of Registration of Persons, which was attributed mainly to corruption at the border control points and registration centres, mainly in Nairobi, Coast and North Eastern regions. 6. There was destruction of property occasioned by exchange of fire between the terrorists and the security forces. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Joint Committee made the following recommendations:- 1. The Government should declare war against Al Shabaab wherever they are. The war against terrorism should be intensified within and outside the country. The Government should collaborate with the international community for concerted efforts to bring peace and stability to the Republic of Somalia with a view to ensuring that the country no longer serves as a sanctuary for international crime and terrorism. 2. The Government should establish a national inter-agency co-ordination centre to be referred to as “Directorate of National Security”, with membership drawn from all the security agencies to ensure that intelligence gathering, information sharing and implementation are carried out expeditiously. The Directorate, premised on a single and secure information management programme, shall be reporting to constituting agencies. 3. The Government should carry out a radical surgery in the Department of Immigration Services and second trained security officers, including retired military officers, vetted administrators and National Intelligence Security officers, who have a security background to the Department. The Department should, of course, cease to victimise Kenyans of Somali origin. We found that sometimes it is easier for somebody from Somalia to get an identification certificate than it is for a Kenyan Somali. 4. The Refugee Act, 2006, should be repealed because it is redundant and cannot deal adequately with the emerging issues of terrorism. A new law should be developed to guide relevant Government officials on handling of the refugee phenomenon in the country. 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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