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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the hon. Senator for Busia County needs to be told that even at Busia border point, he cannot just cross like that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what I was saying is what was the action that was required by the communities so that, that problem be sorted out immediately. For two consecutive months, this problem matured until it went outrageously wrong that we lost our young men; 21 officers the other day. Who was given the first information? There must be somebody who was told. What did he do? Is this inaction or inertia? What must have made our officers, who were the first to be told this, not to act? That person should have been sent home or to jail because we ended up losing people because they failed to take action. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know we have recruited officers. These officers were supposed to start their training in July, 2014. Therefore, 10,000 officers are not being trained because the court cancelled the whole recruitment process. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need more police officers in Mandera, Garissa and Lamu to beef up security. The Lamu situation is very dramatic because I hear that up to now, they are still extending the curfew as if the Kenya Government does not exist there. What is so difficult when we have already taken possession and removed the culprits? Why must we continue oppressing the economy of that place? Something has gone wrong with our system. We are not fighting another country. These are just problems that we need to stop. We do not need to spread them so as not to affect our economy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, something must be weirdly wrong. Suppose we have called officers to go and arrest a situation, why must they go in such a manner as if they are going to destroy everything there and come and tell people, this has happened. Look at the two vivid examples in Mandera. In a twinkle of an eye in the afternoon, we 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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