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"content": "terms that, perhaps, those managers of that time had done their best, but their best was not good enough for the country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second thing we said is that other than dealing with the rolling of individual heads, we also wanted to see a systemic change in the way we do intelligence gathering, policing and response in times of terror. Kenyans know that after that sustained demand, especially by elected leaders, the Executive made some changes and that is how Mr. ole Lenku lost his job as the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government; that is how Mr. David Kimaiyo resigned from being the Inspector General (IG) of the Kenya Police Service. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Joseph Nkaissery and Mr. Boinett came into office knowing too well that Kenyans are yearning for a lasting solution on the issue of insecurity. Therefore, it is unfortunate that hardly two months after the changes in personnel, we are witnessing another period of a barbaric attack on a huge scale that has been visited once more on innocent students in one of the universities in our country. I condole with the families of the dead on my personal behalf, on behalf of the people of Tharaka-Nithi and in my capacity as the Senate Majority Leader. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to say two things; number one, yes, we have changed the security managers, but it appears there is still a missing link in terms of cracking the problem of insecurity. So, allow me to use this chance to, once again, remind ourselves that the only way we can make a step forward in this matter is to require and demand for more drastic changes in our security system today. How? While the new security laws that were passed in December last year were a step in the right direction in terms of having a co-ordinated approach to response on insecurity, I am still convinced that nothing short of a fully-fledged, multi-agency unit to secure our homeland will help our country. It is not enough to deploy the KDF and the NPS and tell them “there are terrorists and people are suffering; go and rescue them.” Going forward, we will require a homeland security unit that has all the agencies together so that when there is a response like this one, the units can, perhaps, work faster because they have time to train together and internalize their standard operating procedures. Anything short of a homeland security unit will not give us results. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, as a nation, must learn from countries that have responded, with better results, on issues of terrorist attacks. In a country like Israel, the response takes place within minutes on such scale and magnitude that is sometimes one hundred times stronger than the threat that was posed by the attack. So, I hope that our security forces will try their best and do whatever they can in the circumstances. However, I am afraid that we have to scale up our response; we have to internalize and improve on our coordination and nothing short of a homeland security outfit of a multi- agency nature will help this country resolve the insecurity problem. With those remarks, I condole with the families and I hope that soon, Kenyans will be spared the ongoing anguish. Thank you. 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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