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    "content": "more individuals, buying more Land Rovers and running around with trucks. Technology is here and our country must be secured using the best knowledge that is available. I understand that there is a suggestion to build a wall along the Kenya-Somalia border. However, I am sure we can build better walls. Today, there exists unmanned crafts; they are called drones. They are cheaper and can patrol our borders. They can form a better wall. We can invest in them cheaply rather than having to have the hardware that will be around with us for a long time and yet we will not be secure. There are a lot of things in terms of technology. These are the kinds of things that we would want our security agents to get involved in to bring in new knowledge to safeguard our borders and our security. Madam Temporary Speaker, paragraph 95 of the President’s Speech worries me a lot. The President says explicitly, in this paragraph, that he has no confidence in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). It reads in part:- “The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission is now embroiled in infighting and finger-pointing, a state of affairs likely to cripple the investigative capacity of the institution with the likely outcome of subverting the course of justice.” I am afraid that in this statement, the President did not go further to say what else we can do if this is the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) that we are giving 60 days and we have no confidence in it. What else can we do to squarely face this enormous challenge of corruption in this country? I am not confident enough that the current EACC, as constituted, will do for us any fair game in the next 60 days. I am sure that this is going to be one of the easiest escape routes for the mentioned individuals, whose cases are going to be investigated. Unless we do something about the EACC in this country, then we might not achieve as much as we would wish in terms of tackling corruption. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Auditor General is one of those to be investigated for financial impropriety. For investigations that deal with finance to be done, you will need to do an audit. If the Auditor General is one of those to be investigated, I am just wondering whether we should not really be looking at another body that would probably consider difficult cases like that involving the Auditor General. It is probably going to be useless to try and get the Auditor General to audit himself. Secondly, it is stated in this report that it is the Auditor General who is being investigated. But it does not state exactly which Auditor General is being referred to. Is it the one who served in 2010 or 2011? I think it is an individual who commits crimes and not the office itself. So, this must be specified so that we can deal with the issue squarely. Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to talk about devolution. We have devolved governments and this is the best thing that ever happened to this country. But, unfortunately, at the moment, it is the most fertile ground in this country for corruption. We allocated Kshs216 billion to the county governments and we thank God for some of those counties which have done something. But I can say without any fear of contradiction that all the monies that we have put in some counties – like the one that I 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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