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    "content": "to be a bribe to a policeman. He does not even look at it but pockets it. This could even be a newspaper cutting. They are in a rush to pocket whatever is given to them. By so doing, they let terrorists walk into any situation and damage our country. What are we seeing now? We are seeing knee-jerk reactions, desperate reactions by the Government borne out of another inept behavior. The Minister of Interior and Co- ordination of National Government has gone to Garissa. That is an operational centre. What has he gone to do? He should be seated in his office and telling us what operational structures and policies he is putting in place so that such things are not repeated. Running to Garissa is just playing to the galleries. What is he going to do? He may have military training. However, is he a military man anymore? He is not. What other knee-jerk reactions have we seen? In gross violation of a court order and the Constitution, the President, in a state of panic has ordered that the controversial 10,000 recruits of police must report to Kiganjo immediately. It appears good. However, it is a violation of the law. This is disregard for a court order. Everybody knows that those recruits were recruited under a cloud of massive corruption. People were selling land and taking bank loans to finance the recruitment of those recruits. They will now go to Kiganjo to train and as soon as they take up their jobs; their moral psyche will make them take as much bribes as possible to recover the loss of the land that their family sold to take them there. What will they do to improve our situation? They will do nothing. This country, in a bi-partisan manner, must rise together and say enough is enough. We have seen these things a little too much. There are too many happenings that challenge our security. All we see are people talking as if this is business as usual. Today the headlines say we have lost. The President may go and address the nation. Tomorrow, the sky team will be out there in harambees and nobody will be talking about security anymore. This country is headed in the wrong direction. Security is the foundation of any nation. Schools and business will not function and everything will be dysfunctional if there is no security. Look at the situation in Nairobi. I laughed loudly recently when the President told us that Kenya is the third fastest growing economy in the world and I wondered whether he lives in this country. Visit the Central Business District (CBD) today or any other town and you will see that at 5.00 p.m, businessmen barricade their shops, close down and rush home out of fear of repraisals from gangsters and criminal groupings that permeate everywhere in our country. You cannot walk in the streets of Nairobi after 6.00 p.m without fear of an attack. If the CBD is unsafe, you can imagine what Kibera, Korogocho and Mathare are like, not to mention far flung unprotected areas like Meru, Garissa and Bungoma. I agree that we need a multiagency approach. However, this should not be at the command level. This should be at the policy level. Our Constitution is very clear. The army is for the protection of the integrity of the territory of our country and to protect our country against external aggression and only to interfere internally, with the authority from Parliament. Which Parliament has given authority to the armed forces of Kenya to be in Garissa today? Are they there because we have no police? Are they there because we have no GSU? Are they there because we have no APs or because we have no home guards? We have them. 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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