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    "content": "internal attack. This has been going on and on. I want to request the Chairman to go back and check with the security agencies. In the last Cabinet, we passed a very clear resolution that the Government establishes security facilities and specially, the General Service Unit (GSU) and Administration Police along the Kenya-Uganda-South Sudan- Ethiopia border, around Turkana, at 50 kilometre intervals. The minutes of the Cabinet can be brought and my brother, Sen. Haji and Sen. Kiraitu were with me in the Cabinet and know this. We sat in that committee with Sen. Orengo and Sen. Munyes himself. I do not know if this has been done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, given what we have been told by the distinguished Senator for Mandera and others, that the irreducible minimum that the security agencies in Turkana, Marsabit and those vast counties should have is, at least, a helicopter to assist them in tracking criminals; could the Chairman ensure that they are given an helicopter to assist them fight crime? We have lost too many lives and really do not want to lose anymore lives. We have seen it all over the country. What do we see? We see the Governor of Lamu being arrested and driven on a pick-up from Lamu to Mombasa. He was taken to court yesterday and after three weeks, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) goes to court and says: “I need two months because the investigations are complex.” Why did you arrest him in the first place? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Chairman for going to the Office of the President to check. But under normal circumstances when a Committee of the Senate calls the Executive, it does not have to take the Chairman to walk from office to office. We expected in our Committee this morning to interrogate the Minister for Interior and Coordination of National Government. Instead, we were told that he has accompanied the Head of State to Kwale for Iftar, when people are dying. Recently, you may recall that in Korea when a ferry capsized killing 300 people, the Minister did not wait to be sacked. He promptly resigned and left office. When are these levels of moral responsibility going to get into our system? It is not culpability, but the question of responsibility. You do not even need a Motion of Parliament to leave office when there is culpability. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to urge that, perhaps, the way to go is for you to call a Kamukunji and call the men and women who are in charge of our security to come to this Senate, so that it is not a question of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations, but this whole Senate expressing outrage and concern on the plight of Kenyans. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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