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    "id": 515083,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen.Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. Billow for bringing this Motion of Adjournment. I recall that this is not the first time he has brought this Motion. Mandera is bleeding and ailing. When I was a young lawyer in 1993, I went to Mandera to defend somebody falsely accused and the magistrate was a District Commissioner (DC).This man told the DC that “we in Mandera are not in Kenya, we are not Kenyans and we are not treated as such”. Being a young inexperienced lawyer, the DC ignored all my pleas and jailed the man with no evidence and later, he told me that “ hao watu ni pumbavu”. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the pain that Mandera is going through – the pain we saw in Lamu and Kapedo; the pain rotating around the Turkana/Pokot boundaries, Baringo and Mombasa; it has happened in Bungoma – leaves us with serious questions. Have we abdicated our responsibility to protect Kenyans? In a country where we have no visible military threat from any of our external neighbours, it makes little sense to continue pumping billions and billions of shillings into the hands of the army and giving less and less money and equipment to the police, who are responsible for internal and homeland security. Today, a policeman sits in Garissa, commanding the former North Eastern Province, including Mandera, and his tool of operation is a Land Rover yet we have the Deputy President and his team flying all over the country, donating millions of shillings – corruptly acquired – in harambees when people are dying like flies. This is the country where we are; why is the Commandant of Police in Mandera – leave along Garissa – not given a helicopter and equipment to defend the people of Mandera? Today, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our army is a trading army; it is like the Nigerian Army. Boko Haram can go, dismember a battalion of Nigerian Army, kill them and walk away. But when they try to enter Cameroon, a platoon of 50 Cameroonian military wiped out the entire 200 Boko Haram invaders because Cameroon has an army and Nigeria has a trading army. These are people who are in the army to do business, to make money, to live comfortably and to do nothing; and that is what we have in Kenya. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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