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    "content": "tourists. Those are the people who provide income. Those are the people who employ the young people in Mombasa who are now turning to crime and we are watching. It is also a matter that does not need a lot of explanation; that the tourist cycle is such that if you affect tourism now, in the next one year, we will not have tourists in Mombasa and Lamu. When these alerts are sent to other places, because the incident in Mandera was broadcast all over the world, nobody will want to step into this country. It is worse than even the Ebola virus. Why would a Government watch as we destroy our economy without taking action? I hope that this is one of those Motions that we will ensure that it is acted upon. Unless action is taken, we will continue talking about these issues. In the event that action is not taken, we must ourselves as legislators start wondering whether we should not take up that role of ensuring that security in this country is properly done by taking those actions that will ensure that the people who are responsible for certain things take action and, in default, disciplinary action is taken against them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, yesterday Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale with other people were protesting in what is now called “Occupy Harambee House”. They were tear-gassed and that will go into history as one of those protests where people were attempting to take action. They were ignored. I am sure no action will be taken. The officers in charge of security are still enjoying their perks. They are still in office while people are dying and no action is being taken. It is time this Senate considered whether or not the function of security should not, in fact, be a shared function with counties. This is because it is now apparent and we have records that NIS releases information to the police, but no action is taken. Who do we blame? These people are paid through our taxes, nobody takes action or checks what they are doing. If you are in a county like Mandera, it is assumed that the intelligence will come all the way to Nairobi. Somebody from Nairobi will sent a signal all the way to Mandera and then that person will then send another signal to another person to take action. The management of counties and the people running county governments are not aware of what these people are doing. As a result, we are having a huge chain of command and sometimes broken telephone where nobody is taking action, no one is checking and nobody knows why nobody is checking. Perhaps, it is time that the national Government admitted that some of these functions cannot be undertaken without the assistance of county governments. Secondly, the people we call County Commanders are not even answerable to the Governors. I am glad this has come now because I remember the last contribution by Sen. Kajwang, there was a proposal to form a county security board at the county level where these County Commanders were going to be answerable to the governors. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, why is the function of security a secret? What is so secretive about the fact that crime is about to be committed? Why should that information wait to be relayed in whatever form? I do not know how they use it, maybe it is a Morse code, but whatever method they use, why would there be such bureaucracy? The survivors in Kapedo said that they attempted to communicate when they were ambushed, but nobody went to their rescue. If police officers can be ambushed by gangsters, they communicate and nobody saves them, and much later, 21 of them are killed in cold blood 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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