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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should be trying to help the ladies who have been attacked to get psychosocial support. Had they been killed, who would report the crime? There is enough evidence and these institutions cannot hide behind “there is no complainant” phrase. We do not take kindly the casual manner in which they are taking it. We cannot feel safe anymore walking on the streets. I have said before that it has come to a point where even animals in this country are no longer safe. It is that bad. Until we fix security, we cannot talk of becoming a middle income level country when we cannot do business in our country. There comes a time when we need to fix the root cause of the problem. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the right to security is in the Constitution. We have a right to be treated with dignity and to own property in peace. We have lacked this in this country. The attacks you are seeing every day be it in Tana River, Meru or Isiolo, are basically getting out of hand. We know the role of each arm of Government. As I speak, even the 10,000 members we had recruited to boost the ratio of police to citizens which should be ideally one policeman to 500 people, has been halted. We still have one policeman to thousands. We have a clear shortage of policemen and people in different formations of the disciplined forces. That is why we must look at how we can complement what already exists. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo is the one who has brought up this. He comes from an area where he has experienced, first hand, the issues of cattle rustling and insecurity. Last month I read in the newspapers about a man called Awet from Turkana. He had been interviewed on why he became a police reservist. He said his main motivation was to protect his children. He needed a gun to make sure the only school in the area can run because without that they would be attacked. We have heard of a young Pokot boy who was killed and his head chopped off. What we are seeing is basically out of hand. Until we fix it, we will not attain Vision 2030. We are not even making progress. When will we do the evaluation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)? Come next year, we will see that we are very far from attaining them. You cannot talk of health care and ensuring everyone has an education if a school has to depend on someone with a gun to run. How will we put ourselves on the map again, as a country, and do post evaluation of the MDGs if we cannot even do the basic things? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this Bill, especially on the training bit of KPRs. It is not a new thing; it has been there since 1948. Getting a legal framework will help in streamlining what we are supposed to see the reservists doing. I know the Senator for Homa Bay has really spoken about the issue of intelligence. It is only in Nairobi where you meet an intelligence officer. They tell you my name is so and so and I work for the NIS. I do not know where that came from. We have slid very far behind to say that you only need a degree. It is very prestigious for one to join the intelligence service and to brag to people that he works with NIS. We cannot borrow everything that former President, Moi, did. However, if there is one thing that we should borrow is how intelligence was gathered during his time. We can get cooks and shoe shiners to do intelligence. We must get to a level where we, not only use intelligence officers from the elitists that we are talking about, but we must 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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