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    "content": "terms of security must change. The strategy should revert to the days where elders used to sit together and discuss so that they can flush out any person they feel is not from Wajir, Mandera or even Garissa. Garissa is more complex because it is more cosmopolitan. But having said that, I am saddened about how the police handled the attack. I saw the tankers in the pictures from the scene and I was praying that it does not turn out into another “Westgate” way of doing things. It is time that, as a country, we have to ask ourselves five questions; number one, do we still need to have the police force together or do we need to go back and ensure that the Administration Police remain independent from the Regular Police? There should be distinct duties for each unit because when you look at what is happening today, there is so much conflict in the same force which you cannot even understand. Each of the units blame their failure on, “either it was because of this or because of that.” When the National Intelligence Service (NIS) is now doing its job, again we have come back to the same problem; the police. It is time, as a country, that we asked ourselves questions. For example, when we went to Wajir, the real Kenyans who live and were born in Wajir said very clearly. It is time we must be bold and go back and redo the census of the NFD the right way so that you can know who you are protecting as a Kenyan. When you talk of how many Kenyans we have and the fact that they need to be protected, who are we protecting? When you look at the NFD, we have a mixture of all persons and even the real Kenyans do not have their identification documents but you find that our brothers from the Somalia side have identification documents. Why is it so? This is because of the same corruption that we have gone through. We need a new generation identification card; we need to accept that security is an issue we must deal with clearly without fear or favour, without saying “oh, they will say this.” That is how Ethiopia and Tanzania are surviving; because they know their people. But for us, Kenyans, we decided--- Fine, we have said that we want to take care of refugees, so be it. But then we must take care, in a policy manner, where you also protect your own people who are living in your country. We cannot keep on saying that we will protect refugees yet our people are dying. That would be very unfortunate for Kenyans."
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