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    "id": 506525,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/506525/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "I hope I am going to recover my minute in due course. I was saying that Article 240 (7) requires the Chairman of the NSC, who is the President, to inform Parliament about the state of security in Kenya. Why should he involve Parliament? He should involve Parliament because Article 238 says that national security is subject to the authority of the Constitution and Parliament. Therefore, Parliament should be informed so that if there are any legislative proposals that we need to make in order to curb insecurity, we shall be aware of them. However, looking at the President’s Report we must make comparisons of what he said then and what we have today. I am particularly looking at one of the issues he raised in the speech. He stated that the Government has launched a counter radicalization strategy in collaboration with local leaders, faith and community based organisations to rehabilitate the affected youth. All what we have heard recently is that there is a heightened radicalization of our youth. There are people who are using our places of worship as havens of crime. When police, in their bid to root out criminals, are condemned by leaders in this House, what are we up to? Why would leaders profile Muslims or Christians? Why can we not have a level of patriotism? Why can we not wait for investigations to be done and then we assist the President and the security apparatus to curb insecurity? We cannot talk politics on one hand and then on the other hand we want to be seen by Kenyans to be working towards eradication of insecurity. I was looking at the legislative proposals that are pending in this Parliament that we are yet to pass. Here, we are talking about a Parliament that should check the Executive, but what do we see? We have not passed any single legislation."
}