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"speaker_name": "November 26, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 39 Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in thanking Sen. Billow for not being tired of bringing this topic of security again and again. It is like it is a dominant subject in our Motions, Bills and the Business of this House. If you can recall, since we constituted the sitting last year, a number of statements have been made regarding security. Motions have been made on security and nearly every Member in this House has sought a statement or moved a Motion or a Bill on security issues. That tells you that we are entering into a time when, if we are not careful as Kenyans, we might play or lose the destiny and the statehood of Kenya. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Mover of this Motion has said that it is as a result of the tragedy that took place in his own home county. Many other counties have suffered similar fates. The national security organs which we know are the KDF, NIS and NPS. Their primary objective is to promote and guarantee national security. We need to see how they can work together. I do not think there is anything that may be required to be written even further although the Mover says we need to get more legislative measures and more documents to be reproduced. If there is a country that is very good at producing papers, it is Kenya. We may be already having these legislative laws we require in order to be effective. However, we are lacking the implementation bit. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when a governor says that the information was passed about some bandits crossing from another country to Kenya and they were planning an attack, whom did he talk to? Who was given the first information? That Governor is alive and kicking. He should be asked: Whom did he pass that information to? Whoever received the information should shed tears and say, he is sorry because of his inability to take action and this tragedy took place. If that information had been reacted to, sufficient protection would have been given over that period of time when these crooks were seen around. In fact, the necessary protection would have been given to all the vehicles and all persons who live there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we suggest that some people must go, the person who must go home very fast and, in fact, to jail from Mandera is the officer who was given the information by the county government system, but he failed to act. Do we know the name of that person? Why is the character still on the government payroll? Here, we are talking about somebody higher in the rank called ole Lenku and another one called Kimaiyo. However, here we have a name of an officer whose physical address and house number is known, but he failed to take action. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Kapedo tragedy is a living example of what has gone wrong in our systems. On 30th of September, 2014, some funny killings took place in Kapedo centre where somebody’s head was chopped. Up to today, it has not been found. The body is still lying in a mortuary in Kabarnet Town. When the young men went to report to our General Service Unit (GSU), Kapedo, the officers did not take action. I believe they also reported to the chief, DO and the DC, but they too did not take action. Do we know the names of the officers who these young men reported to that one of them had been killed by some fellow within there and he ought to be arrested? What did the GSU officers do? They escorted the said killer to run away. He went and hid himself. It was just like the usual killings between the two communities; the Pokot and the Turkana. They must have told him, “Go and hide, this episode will be forgotten. 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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