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    "id": 554880,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "roads and boarding schools for the pastoralists’ children out of this Kshs102 billion so that they appreciate schools than guns, it will go a long way in improving security in this country. If we can have water, drill boreholes in these areas and come up with irrigation projects in Kerio Valley, Turkana, Pokot, Kajiado - as I am told by Hon. Sakuda - and all the northern parts of the country, we will engage the young people of this country in income generating projects and going to school rather than idling. It is because they are very idle and have nothing to do that they engage in insecurity. The Kshs92 billion allocated to the Ministry of Defence or our defence forces which are the Kenya Army, the Kenya Navy and the Kenya Air Force is a lot of money. It is huge money and we have not seen security improving along our borders despite this huge allocation. I know that we are going to allocate the same amount of money to them. We have seen the porous borders with Al-Shabaab killing our people with this huge budget. I propose that it is good to use half of this money from the Ministry of Defence and use it in creating a buffer zone between Kenya and Somalia in the next Budget. We should use it to relocate our people at the border and create about a 50-kilometre buffer zone where the military and police will be shooting and training with their guns far from our people. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has been allocated about Kshs20 billion. This is an area which has also failed. We have seen NIS officers recruited from universities as graduates who once they get into the Service and are paid huge salaries want to go for their Masters Degrees and Doctorates (PhD) in Business Management rather than Security Management. We have seen that to pass intelligence information, you do not need to be a graduate. Even a Standard Seven drop-out can give intelligence information. During the Nyayo era the intelligence of this country was very effective. This time round, we have Members of Parliament and those elite people in the society who have taken their sons to the NIS. These are people who were born and brought up in Nairobi. They do not want to go and shine shoes in Korogocho or Kerio Valley where there is cattle rustling and behave like those people in order to get intelligence information. I think they need to change the way they are training the police officers. There is need also to re-evaluate the work of NIS and the people in that department."
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