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    "content": "out of his very serious terrorism problem. I do not know how the leaders in that area are looking at it, but I am not convinced that the people there do not know those who are perpetrating these terrorist acts. Even if they do not know them by name, they know the young people who have disappeared. Recently, we were told that the leader of the terrorists who attacked Garissa University was a nephew of a chief. The way the story turned out is that that particular family had a history of association with Al Shabaab activities. Billions of money is being spent in every annual budget to fund our intelligence department. To have terrorist attacks one after the other; Garissa bus, Mpeketoni, Garissa University, Wajir and in all of them the security intelligence appears to have had prior knowledge of the events, it looks like either the intelligence are not doing their job or maybe they are doing their job and the people who are supposed to act on it are not doing so. I would like to call upon the intelligence gatherers and those who are supposed to act on it to pull up their socks. Foreigners who are in the country like the British are not doing us any good. The British keep on issuing travel advisories to their citizens when we are crying and telling them that our coastal region is okay and that there might be a few problems but it is the same like in many countries in the world, only when one of their citizens turned up as a terrorist killing our citizens, did they find that the country is safe and they relaxed the travel advisories? They have now told their citizens to visit the coastal region. I would like to call upon them to agree that this is a worldwide problem; it is not just happening in Kenya. They should not scare their citizens and other citizens from coming into our country deliberately killing our tourism industry which is not forgivable. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, teachers who teach in the north eastern region refused to go back because they were scared. As I said, it became totally untenable. It is not only teachers but also many other personnel in the health sector and other Government departments. If you look at all homes in Nairobi and other towns away from the areas where Al-Shabaab and other terrorist groups are active, you will find that all of them are barricaded with gates, burglar-proofs and such kinds of things. Nobody attacks us. Maybe, the only people we are scared of are burglars. We are scared of people who may come and threaten to kill us because we are not Muslims. That is a total scare. The shortage of teachers will be experienced everywhere. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Government provides free primary education or purports to do so. In some areas, there is no free primary education. The Government provides free primary education by allocating about Kshs1,000 per child per year. The child, for example, may need a policeman or there should be a police station in every primary school so that there is safety for the teachers and pupils. That is, perhaps, what the Government should do. We should not pretend that primary education is free yet that is only applicable in areas where there is security. We should not continue to say that primary education is free in areas where there is no security. I would like to call upon the Government, at this late hour, to see to it; whether to put a police station next to every primary school, house teachers in schools and ensure that there are police officers and, if need be, the army next to every primary and 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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