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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": "Thank you, very much hon. Speaker. I also stand to support this Report and Motion. I would like to thank the Committee for bringing this report early enough so that the Appropriation Bill can be enacted and certain developments and security issues can be taken care of. I want to echo the position of my colleague, hon. Shill. Without security, there is no development. Therefore, the security sector has been given a raw deal. You remember the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee came before this House and demanded that Committees must submit recommendations with regard to the Ministries that they oversee. Our Committee did that. The security sector is so important in this country; that if we do not match resources with threats, then this country is going to be in problems. National security entails protection and safeguarding of citizens and their property. The four Ministries; which are, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, Ministry of Defence, National Security Intelligence Service and Ministry of Foreign Affairs are on duty 24 hours and they consume a lot of resources. In these Supplementary Estimates, the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee should have, at least, brought the Report of the Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. When you look at the Ministry of Defence, they are using their budget, which was meant for operation and maintenance, because they are operating in Somalia. They are now operating in South Sudan. You remember when the problem of Sudan came up; we had to mobilize the Kenya Defence Forces to repatriate our people. That budget for that mobilization was an unforeseen contingence. Therefore a situation like that, when we come to Supplementary Estimates, should be given priority."
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