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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will try to utilize my four minutes. First, I want to thank all hon. Members who got a chance to contribute to this very important Report. I want to say that the views that hon. Members have given are very important. One, it has become very evident that security is everyone’s responsibility and we should all join hands in fighting insecurity in this country. Two, it has also been captured from the contribution of hon. Members that we need to institutionalise security and keep the security reforms on-going through legislation, policy and institutional frameworks. I think this House needs to take its role in that. We need to bring legislation, policy and institutional framework that will fill the gaps that are causing insecurity in this country. Three, it has also become very clear that fighting insecurity requires a holistic approach where all actors are synergized in one basket .We need to do that as a country and stop the blame-game. The issue of resource allocation has also come up from the contribution of hon. Members; that we need to allocate enough or adequate resources to our security agencies in order to modernize their equipment. We should also take care of their welfare. That is also another aspect for this House. As a House, we should allocate resources in terms of budgeting. We should take care of that next time the budget is brought to this House. Finally, we need to strengthen National Intelligence Service (NIS). All hon. Members have talked of proper and modern ways of gathering intelligence. They have even proposed to give NIS powers to arrest. It is also within the powers of this House to think of many ways of strengthening our intelligence and by doing so, we are going to arrest the insecurity in this country. All those views have been taken into account and I want to assure this House that in formulating the National Security Policy that hon. Members have talked about, all this will be taken into account. Therefore, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move."
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