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    "id": 506438,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "culture and norms of communities embracing peace-building and conflict resolution mechanisms. There is also the issue of unemployment. It is said in the Report that 11 million Kenyans are not employed. The 11 million is about 30 per cent and those are all youth. This has worsened or created a pool that is targeted for recruitment towards radicalization, organized crime gangs and other vices. This issue is also a challenge and we must look for ways to deal with it. I know the Government has proposed some ways of improving the economy; even targeting 10 per cent of our GDP as the economic growth rate and that would help our youth to leave those bad habits. They have proposed the issue of assisting the youth to access credit even using the latest model of Uwezo Fund. I want to say there is also need for those facilities or those mechanisms like Uwezo Fund to be fast-tracked because it is taking a lot of time to be actualized. As we speak now, if any of the constituencies has received their authority to incur expenditure (AIEs), I know the monies have gone to the constituency account but money without AIEs cannot be spent. We, therefore, call upon the concerned authorities to speed up that. The issue of financial limitation has been talked about. If you look at it, it is said for over 20 years, the Ministry of Internal Security has always been under-funded and, therefore, it has been a problem for a long time. So, even if this Government - and I am sure they have increased allocation--- This is the second financial year since the Jubilee Coalition took over power. So, a problem created for 20 years cannot be fixed within a year or two. It is good to note that is another problem. The Mover talked of a breakdown of our social fabric. The issue of stripping of our sisters in the streets is as a result of a breakdown of our social fabric. It is causing a lot of insecurity and even domestic violence. Our values have gone down and crimes against immorality are being brought by such vices. Therefore, it is good that we partner with faith and community-based organizations as proposed in the Report to enhance those civic virtues and have positive values as well as provide psychological support for those victims. Finally, on the causes I have picked, there is this issue of weak coordination. Even the courts have really been so weak in the coordination against terrorism and other insecurity aspects. According to the Report, 150 terrorists have been arraigned in court in the year under review but, maybe, because of our Constitution, all of them have been given bonds. Some have been released because there is no coordination between the judicial system, the prosecution and law enforcement. That circus has really left the public with a lot of frustration and anger. It is the reason that sometimes you see them taking law into their hands and sometimes manifesting mob justice. There is still another weak coordination. When you see the Executive trying to improve the number of personnel in terms of law enforcement by coming up with a policy of employing 10,000 police officers in a year and the other arm of the Government has stopped it, it is serious. We need those people to fight crime. It is not really good coordination. Very important are the three recommendations that His Excellency the President has put in the Report. He said:- “In this regard, the Government looks to the co-operation of Parliament in the process of reviewing legislation to enforce the fight against insecurity by closing any 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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