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    "speaker_name": "December 2, 2014 SENATE DEBATES 44 Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also stand to support this Motion. I want to appreciate my colleague who has brought this Motion here on this very sad day where citizens of his county and other Kenyans have lost their lives. I also send my condolences to the families of the departed souls. Dealing with security is a very difficult issue. I know that at this very moment, people like Kimaiyo are at their lowest ebb; he is feeling embarrassed. I know that Kimaiyo has been in the police force for close to 35 years. In the past, he has served this country as best as he could. Something must have gone wrong to the extent that an officer of his calibre has been forced to resign. I am sure this is not the person of Kimaiyo, but the institution he was serving. We must start to question ourselves how our institutions are using our officers; whether they are experienced or inexperienced. Our institutions are, perhaps not getting the best out of the officers that we have had. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have had to go the full cycle. Before, we also had a general from the army heading the police force. He performed well, but it is unfortunate that we have to let Kimaiyo who I believe tried his best to serve his country, go. It is unfortunate that his best was inadequate for the purposes of today. However, we want to commend and thank him for the good service rendered to the Republic of Kenya. The United States of America (USA) went through a similar difficult situation like we have in Kenya with regard to insecurity. There was the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Centre as one of those difficult times. As the two major parties in the US; the Republicans and the Democrats addressed the issue of insecurity in that country, you could hardly tell the difference between the political parties in that country. We would really like to go that way in this country where we do not see any line drawn between the parties in the Opposition and the parties in Government. This is one area where we should demonstrate solidarity and face our security challenges. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in Nigeria, it reached a situation where Nigerian soldiers ran away from the Boko Haram . We do not want to get to a situation where our forces will be demoralized to that level and behave unprofessionally. Unfortunately, if we get to that level, we will not be able to operate. I want to encourage our forces to be professional and patriotic because dealing with security issues is very difficult because it even puts the lives of those officers in danger. Lastly, we cannot fight terrorism in this country without intelligence. We should know their plans well ahead so that we can deal with them. We cannot fight terrorism with only iron. We should know that what we are facing in this country has got international dimensions. Therefore, we should call upon our friendly countries so that we can counter this terrorism."
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