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    "content": "Inspector-General of Police visited Mandera and then came back. He should have sent the military or the air force there to sweep even 50 kilometres inside Somalia. Why do we have to wait to get permission from the African Union to send the Kenya Defence Forces from Kismayu or Wajir to clear that border which is only 200 kilometres? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am ashamed that today we do not get the intelligence information that we used to get. When I was in Mandera, we could get the raw intelligence information by the door about anything that was happening in Mogadishu. The Somalis, especially the Gurreh, the Murulle and the Degodia who live there are very good at giving verbal intelligence information. We do not understand what is happening now. Maybe there is corruption and they fear that when they tell the National Intelligence Service (NIS) officers, a policeman or the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers, that gangsters, terrorist militias or thugs will go after them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should stand with our President and seek a lasting solution before Kenya becomes a Boko Haram area. Specific areas include: Mandera, Wajir, Garissa, Isiolo, Laikipia, Samburu, Turkana, West Pokot and parts of Baringo. We have heard about massacres like the one in Baragoi and Kapedo. Our KDF leaders rush there and after two days, you do not hear any information in the media. The information is kept in the lockers. What are we doing as a nation or as a Senate? We must stand up with our President and the people of Mandera. I sympathise with Governor Ali Roba. He is a young person who wants to bring change in Mandera. He has created harmony between the leadership of that county. He is devoted to seeing devolution working down to the grassroots. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I plead with the House that we summon all the defence forces urgently as a Senate. If need be, we should even invite the President so that we support him in the presence of the officers. We can tell him to assert the officers. I met Cabinet Secretary, Maj. Nkaissery, the other day and I admired what he told county commissioners. He gave orders like a general. However, I do not know whether officers who are below him are serious to work with him or he will be left there like Mr. ole Lenku to give a hundred and one misleading statements. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we should be serious as Kenyans. Let us not allow Mandera to become another Boko Haram area. I beg to support the Motion."
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