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"content": "nation. It is not about the blame game. It is not about President Kenyatta, Kimaiyo or ole Lenku. A number of terrorist attacks have happened during the period when the President tabled his Report. What has this Government done? That is why I feel the pain. For the first time since Independence, this Government has invested heavily through the assistance of the National Assembly in the security sector in order to enhance security surveillance, peace building and conflict management. I watch people on television saying that we need to allocate more resources. No! I totally disagree. For the first time since Independence, we have invested heavily in the security sector than ever before, under this Parliament. We have improved their welfare. This Government is giving them a very elaborate housing scheme. There has never been an insurance policy for our men and women in uniform. We have completed the forensic laboratory, established the command and control centre, and created the national master database and biometric registration of persons. Lease of police aircraft and motor vehicles has been done under this Government. What are we lacking? The human resource structure of our police is where the problem is. I am sure hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery and those who were in the last Parliament will agree with me. I was shocked to find out that we are the only country in the world that has two parallel police command structures; the Administration Police led by my good friend, Samuel Arachi and the National Police Service, led by Grace Kaindi. Hon. (Maj-Gen.) Nkaissery will agree with me that there is nowhere in the world where we have parallel police. We said in this House: “Let us have one police.” My colleagues in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) should bring that in the referendum. That is where we have a problem. There is a problem of command. What is intelligence? It is gathering intelligence from the lower cadre of the community. You employ the newspaper vendors, the hotel attendants, receptionists, shoe-shiners, matatu touts, bus drivers, taxi drivers and watchmen. That is why a country like Ethiopia, which has a serious problem with the Al Shabaab, has never been threatened to date. This is because of the intelligence network. I am sure my colleagues will agree with me. When you travel with Ethiopian Airlines and you are on transit, you can even notice at the airport, people who serve passengers. They are intelligence officers. It is the same thing with Egypt; countries that are under threat. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our intelligence strategy must change. You do not need to tap hon. A.B. Duale’s phone. Why do you want to tap my telephone? Either I am talking to my colleagues, to my family, hon. Waititu in Juja, hon. Mwashetani, the former Prime Minister or the former Vice-President on their retirement Bill. We have invested heavily in our intelligence. Our two Chairs are here; the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security and the other Chairs. Let Parliament not be used. Let us do our oversight to the people of Kenya. If we feel that a person is not capable of running an institution, let us not be driven away by our ethnic cacoons or by our personal interest. Let us work for Kenya. Let us save Kenya and allow the President to provide the manifesto that will change the socio-economic status of our people. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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