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    "content": "We must understand that when George Bush senior went to Somalia with “Operation Restore Hope” and found it was not working, he did not look embarrassed; he simply said “this is not a cup of tea for America; let us go back.” Kenya may have gone to Somalia on a noble cause, but when it is not working, we should not be embarrassed about it; we should come out of Somalia. We owe no duty to our neighbour called Somalia; to keep our army there when their nationals are walking into our territory, slaughtering people like flies and getting away with it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it has just become a ritual, like I have said earlier; with the President giving warnings, the Inspector-General (IG) flying to see what has happened there like curious children running to see a naked man, laughing and walking away. It has become a ritual, like dogs barking at a new moon at the beginning of every month. They keep on saying “no stones will be left unturned; those found responsible will be punished; those who have done this will be---” but after the end of the week, the news flashes are over; there are no more headlines and it is business as usual. The County Commissioner will still be there, enjoying and living comfortably because he is guarded heavily while people are being killed. Today, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am sure you know that the children in schools in Mandera have no teachers. Why? Because the Government cannot give security to these teachers. At the end of the year, the children of Mandera are going to sit for examinations with our children in schools where they have protection, security and everything. Do we have two countries in one? Do we have three countries in one? This is totally unacceptable and we feel the pain; we feel the sense of loss; we feel the sense of neglect and marginalization by the people of Mandera. This cuts across other counties where we have had these problems. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to see the new IG – we did not support him from this side, but he got the job – coming up with a blueprint. The fact that he was approved by both Houses, he becomes the IG of this country. We want to see him not just sitting in Vigilance House or Jogoo House or wherever he sits, dishing out warnings and more warnings. We want him to go, sit down with leaders of the affected regions, listen to them and ask them what is happening. We know what they have done; if they can walk into a hotel in Lamu, kidnap a French woman, stay with her and kill the husband, that is how courageous they are and how weak we are. Why are we weak? Kenya is the powerhouse of this region; we have 60 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP of this region. We have sent troops to East Timor, Yugoslavia, the entire West Africa and everywhere. Why should we pride ourselves in sending troops to go and help arrest Foday Sankoh in Sierra Leone when we cannot protect people in Mandera? Why are we not recruiting and equipping enough policemen? Even when we try to recruit policemen, the usual nightmare of corruption comes in and today, we cannot get those policemen on duty. One would have expected that when this happened, the Inspector General (IG) of Police, the Commander of the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Director of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) are called and flogged before the President and his security team to account but you do not see this. I am sure what they do is that they sit, laugh and say “ilifanyika namna gani mazee? ” and they laugh about it yet people are 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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