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    "content": "easily within the difficult terrains that we have. Vehicles, where necessary, if it is a place like Nairobi but if it is in a village in Nyeri, Bungoma or Trans Nzoia, a motorbike will help a reservist to move quickly from one place to another. I suggest that the Government should and must provide these equipment. I am saying this because when you look at what is happening in our country, for example, look at the coast region today from Lamu to Vanga, 200 hotels have been closed and people have gone home from employment. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have been in Mombasa as a Senate a few times. You go to one of the high end hotels in this country; the Serena Beach Hotel. When you look around, how many tourists do you see? Five, six, that is about all. If Serena Beach Hotel can have five of six tourists, you can expect what the low end hotels have. That is a serious blow to our economy and it rests at nowhere but at the altar of security. Yesterday, Mombasa was a battle ground. A friend of mine who was supposed to travel to Nairobi from Mombasa at 10. 00 a. m. could not get a flight because there was no access to the airport. There was a serious battle going on between the police and the youth. Our police must be told in very clear terms that they will never fight crime and win with brute force. You cannot. Criminals get emboldened, hardened and become even more vicious when you unleash terror on them in the manner we are seeing in Mombasa. What happened to intelligence? Why are we not infiltrating these young men and picking out a few ring leaders and teaching them that what they are doing is wrong? These are our sons; these are our children. When you go into a mosque, for whatever reason, and attack, shoot and kill, those who scamper out and flee go to regroup and think of how to avenge and revenge. This is not the way our country must go. As we speak on this Bill, the National Intelligence Service (NIS) must pull up their socks. It is not enough for NIS to churn out reports everyday and send to a select few; claiming that there is an imminent attack without telling us from which direction; Mungiki is regrouping, and they do not tell us why they are regrouping; Chinkororo are mutating into something more dangerous but they do not tell us where they are. They are just engaging in bahati nasibu game; just throwing bits and pieces of speculation. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, a proper intelligence service is key, and NIS is remunerated heavily. This financial year alone, they were given Kshs23billion. Their recurrent expenditure is only Kshs2.8billion. The rest of the money must keep Kenyans safe. They must know where the criminals are hiding, what they are conspiring to do, how they want to do it and then alert other agencies to deal with the situation. When we see houses of worship being attacked and adulterated as it were, because I would not want under whatever circumstances the police to raid my church or your mosque. There are better ways of going about this and if you have reservists that Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo wants to bring, they can be part of those youths who can then help and tell the agencies something is going on here. This is because, in every gathering, there is a Judas. You cannot fail to get a Judas in every gathering. Even Jesus had only twelve disciples but one of them turned out to be a Judas. There is no conspiracy without a leakage. If you are looking for information, you will get it. That is why we are being told today what the IEBC did with some people in London. It will always leak! So, if the National Intelligence Service – I hope they are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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