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"content": "there can hold guns legally, that they are answerable to the nearest police station and that the officer in that police station will be able to know who did what. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I did not know that my time will run out so quickly. In Migori County where you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, are the Senator, there was a time when there was a lot of cattle rustling. Villagers organized themselves into something called the Sungu Sungu movement. They borrowed it from Tanzania. They decided to be their own security people. Within one, two or three months, there was no cattle rustling because they faced their own brothers and sisters whom they knew were cattle rustlers. They told them: “We know you, can you tell us why you stole from a certain family?” This became something of the past. I do not think Migori County is still suffering from this because it is based on the morality of the village, that we want our village to be safe and you are the one who is harassing us. I have said that places of worship are not very good places to attack, you attack them intelligently. In India, at one time, Gandhi, the former Prime Minister, who is now deceased, ordered an attack on a mosque. Of course, they dispersed the people who were held up in that mosque, but eventually she was shot by her own body guard because of religious reasons. Her own body guard gave her, at lunch hour, eight bullets and then he surrendered. The reason he did that was that she ordered an attack on a place of worship. Some of these things get down to the bones. Religious matters are very difficult matters. When you want to attack it, you attack it intelligently, you get to know what the problem is, you use the same members of that religious faith, the same youth to indentify to you the bad youths because the Government has those resources. If you have Ksh.23 billion and you can only pay your officers over Ksh.2 billion, what are you doing with the other Ksh.20 billion, which cannot allow you to pay a few young people, a few bar maids, a few touts in matatus, a few people who work in hotels and eateries and get the right information and deal with security issues? You cannot leave security to only the police force as we know it because if you leave it to them, they are too few to deal with these issues. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, before my time runs out, I want to say this, please, if the Executive listens to us, remove the army from “the Pokot Country”. This is not good for the country. It is not good for the community. It does not augur well even in the long run for our country that every time we have a problem, we use the army. It brutalizes a community. In fact, it impoverishes them and destroys their economy. I saw that somebody ordered the killing of cattle. Cattle were shot. They were killed, but not by a bomb. If it was a bomb, we would have said that it landed there wrongly. However, these were our own army officers shooting cattle. That is to destroy an economy. I understand that the commanding officer comes from the commandants’ community. I understand that the commanding officer is a Njemp, a small community in the Samburu tribe. In fact, some cattle have been seen in his own compound. I do not know why he should take other peoples’ cattle and keep them in his compound where he is commanding an operation. This kind of person should be taken to jail. If I get a little more time, there was a Bill that we passed in the last Parliament creating something called the County Policing Authority (CPA). In this authority, the chairman was the governor. The commanding police officer, the District Commissioner 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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