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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am a Member of the Committee on Administration and National Security of this House. I must say that even as Committee Members, who are your colleagues here, we are very concerned. Individually, I am also concerned about the state of insecurity in our country. The issue of security is every citizen’s involvement. However, the Ministry that is charged with the responsibility of providing security in this country is performing at a level that we are also very concerned. As a Committee, we have brought our reports to this House often, which bring to light the grievances or the challenges that that department is facing. You sent us out there in the field to collect information to file reports and we realized that the whole country is in a state of panic. We need to take urgent actions, especially at the Executive level. They need to see whether there is a problem in the Ministry or it is the individuals who are serving there who are unable to discharge their duties. My brother, hon. Keter has enumerated several incidences. He has not raised all of them. We have come across a number of them. My own County of Baringo is now on fire, so to say. Lives are being lost both from the security officers and the civilians. In fact, when you look at it, it is like the security forces are being disarmed by civilians to the extent that several guns fell into the hands of civilians, yet it is only the licensed officers who are supposed to have arms. We need to sit down as a country and come up with a very clear strategy on how we are going to consider issues of disarming."
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