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    "content": "dying. We feel the pain; insecurity in Mandera is insecurity everywhere; a death in Lamu is a death everywhere. We may sit here and be comfortable. Look at Nigeria; now you are not comfortable even in a hotel in Abuja. I was recently invited by an international organization to go to Nigeria to observe elections and I turned it down. I said that I was not going to expose myself to unhelpful and unnecessary risks brought to a country by itself; corruption, nepotism and all manner of ills such that those who are rich are just growing richer and richer. How do you explain a situation where our leaders are going to harambees every weekend, donating Kshs.2million or Kshs.3million, Kshs.2million or Kshs.3million on Friday, Saturday, and Sundays and on Monday, they are back in the office, presiding over corruption to raise more money to go to harambees on Friday and Saturday again yet people are dying? These are issues that we have to ask and speak about as the alternative government. We stand with the Senator of Mandera and we empathize with the people of Mandera. What this House can do - and I urge my Chairman of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations - for us to express our solidarity with the people of Mandera and the Senators from the northern parts of the country; get the Senate to give us the means; let us go to Mandera, let us go to the situ . Let us meet the Governor of Mandera, sit and listen to him. Lastly, Mr. Temporary, Speaker, Sir, as long as we have county governments delinked from security operations in their areas, we will still have these problems. We have said, over and over again, let the governors be the chairmen of the security committees; let the county commander of police report to the Governor because it is a government. But somebody called County Commissioner, Police County Commander are sitting in Mandera and are reporting to Nairobi yet the Governor elected by the people is there. So, the Governor is also a stranger; they are spying and reporting on the Governor instead of working with him. That is why the Governor of Mandera has had five attempts on his life. This is a man - if you go to America, who rises to become president. We must style up and get our act together. If we do not do this, yesterday it was Mandera, tomorrow it will be Garissa, the next day it will be Laikipia, Kakamega, Samburu and Isiolo. You have it coming and when you see it happening to another, know that the next turn is yours. When the Senator for Laikipia, Sen. G.G Kariuki, and Sen. Haji were the Cabinet Minister for Internal Security, we used to see them work. By now, things would be working."
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