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    "content": "militias. I do not know about that. I have problems with that. However, we have to come to terms all of us. I do not believe that we can have 60 people killed in a night in Mpeketoni and the killers disappear completely into thin air such that after many months we have no clue about them. The Government has not come up with any clue as to what happened. We go on even after we are told that the Government has now moved in, we find that three days later another 15 people are killed under similar circumstances. Again, the killers disappear into thin air. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if the incidences in Mandera – because I am finding them a little different from the one in Kapedo – were affecting people who were outside this country, that would be external aggression. The army must move in. We now have the KDF in Somalia. Some people will say: “Get them back” and others say: “Keep them there.” What did they go to do there if it was not to secure our borders? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have every confidence that Hon. Nkaissery, who has been nominated to hold that docket, will do, perhaps, some of the things which are not being done. His track record in security matters is such that we expect him to be organized. When you look at some of the incidents which have happened in this country, for example, Baragoi, you will wonder whether there was a command system. Was there someone at the top who actually knew which askaris were there? When you lose some, you should know what happened and who holds the responsibility for what action down to the detail. We have incidences where we have a security operation. However, it takes 30 to 40 hours for any response to be received in that area. This is bad enough as far as I am concerned. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know the President means very well, but I was disturbed when he said that every person to look after their own security. Much as we shall do so, we all have our own systems. However, I do not know what the people who are in bars were expected to do. We have a Joint Committee of the Senate and National Assembly on Cohesion and Joint Opportunities, of which I am a Member, and in it we have already resolved something similar to what Sen. Billow is requesting, but on a wider scale. That Committee is not a security committee. The mandate of the Committee is to look into the circumstances and genesis of what happened. What is behind the scene that made it possible for whoever they were to come in undetected, do what they did and disappear into thin air? What is it that will make people come and divide us along ethnic or religious lines and somehow it works? How do they do so? What are those ingredients, fundamental problems that are there or the underlying issues which are making this country almost ungovernable? Some of those places are almost ungovernable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support very strongly."
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