Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 541885,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/541885/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 157,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
    },
    "content": ". If we only had 10 or so explosive detectors working in the buses that come from known routes, like Mombasa, through which Al Shabaab take; we would eliminate any of them who has been in training using explosives, whether it is in Somalia or wherever. Why are we so slow in introducing technology that is available? Right now we are complaining that Dadaab is the breeding ground for radicalisation of the youths. We and the leaders from that area have said that we should close Dadaab Refugee Camp. So many people were born in Dadaab; they are now 25 years old and over. We should be radical enough to say that those Somalis who have been here for so long, and who qualify to be Kenyan citizens, should leave Dadaab Refugee Camp and apply for citizenship, so that we take them and hold them accountable for adequate levels of patriotism as Kenyans. Then they can go and settle anywhere such as Busia and we can track them. They can settle in Turkana, Nairobi and even Rongo, and we track them instead of keeping them in Dadaab, where we do not have adequate control over them. The only beneficiaries are the suppliers of food items to the camp, through the UN systems. Those who do not want to settle in Kenya, and are old enough, can be taken back to Somalia. We are slow in responding to security threats. I am saying this deliberately because the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security is listening. We need a 50 per cent budgetary resource allocation to security operations in this country. We should not wait until August to get those resources allocated. We are not responding to the pronouncements of the President that we take active measures on security. Why should it take so long? Sacking people without changing the system to enhance capacity building and commitment to security will not help us. It has to be a total game change in this area. I sympathise with my brother, Nkaissery, who has found himself plunged into a system that is so lethargic and may not be moving very soon. We need the resolve of this House to challenge the Government to act, starting by allocating enough resources to the security agencies and purchasing equipment to train more of our special security units. The Recce unit had to travel from Nairobi to Garissa by road, or by an aircraft that was missing at the time it was required most urgently. Why should this big country, with 42 million people and which is threatened by Al Shabaab from all corners, rely on one Recce unit based in Ruiru? There should be such units in Mombasa, Kisumu and Eldoret, staffed with well trained and equipped people who are ever ready, with their own aircraft, so that they can move, based on their specialisation; to scenes of emergency to rescue people. Why, after 50 years, should a population of 42 million be threatened by Al Shabaab, who move around with AK47 rifles, killing our people because we cannot allocate the required resources to our security units? Possibly it is because some cartels are controlling resource supplies and insisting that only some relatives should be in certain positions. We need enough special security units. We went around other countries with the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security to find out how the authorities in those countries would respond to a situation like that of Westgate. We were told that the moment there is credible intelligence that the terrorists are about to attack a supermarket, all supermarkets will be covered by Special Forces. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}