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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to follow your cue in asking hon. Members to be calm about this. The issue we are talking about is a serious one. Let me inform the hon. Member just walking out that if it is about security, the hottest issue is this Turkana-Pokot thing. I want to speak to very few issues. It is sad to lose human beings. The number one responsibility of any government is to protect human life. That our soldiers get slayed like chicken, to me, 60 years after Independence, within our borders, is an utter shame. I want to plead with our colleagues to wake up to our calling. How did the military get to Kapedo area? The law is very clear; we have been talking about it. If our colleagues on the other side led by hon. A.B. Duale are silent on the law, the next time you will see the military will be on the streets of Nairobi and you will regret it. This argument where hon. Members from Turkana and Pokot are exchanging words on the Floor of the House should have been an argument before the military was deployed because that is what the law says. When you want to have the military help in enforcing peace, you must involve Parliament. We need to address the incapabilities of the police force. There is a structural problem in the police force. The problem is not even the military; the military is being sent to the wrong place at the wrong time but what is the police force doing? Where is the chain of command? Even in your constituencies, how is it that every robbery in Nairobi has an Administration Police person? It is because they have refused to report to the Inspector-General. They have refused to take the command. I want to plead with the two chairs, the Chairman of my Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security to avail time and sit down. The other day I saw the Government saying that there is no problem between the two. There is an obvious problem. You cannot have a District Commissioner in Baringo, Baragoi and wherever without the force to enforce the law. Let us be Members of Parliament and let us help the working of the Executive. We have a scenario where we have a law which we all negotiated. Let us just follow the law. But I want to suggest to our committees, the responsibilities and the onus is on Parliament. Let us guide this, the Inspector-General has issues. He cannot get the Administration Police to respond to him. If we are going to keep the District Commissioners, give them the police. If you cannot give them to the police, give them to the governors. Do something about it but the 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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