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    "content": "even as they walk in the villages. I would persuade those of you without militaries to think of coming back to this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you do not have a military, you are well advised to think seriously about your future in the political arena, if you are thinking about governorship. The purpose of a Bill that should be brought as quickly as possible to this House is essentially to control runaway situations, because what we have at the moment is small individuals, small units, some of them doing a fairly good job as in the market places, for example, in Karatina and other places that I noticed in my county. The problem is that this can have a runaway effect where people begin to arm them like we have heard from Sen. Ndiema, and once we go towards the path of people having guns, and having not come from disciplined forces, you have no control over what those people with guns can do. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think we need to do two things as a matter of urgency. The first one is to stop and put an end to all these enforcement agencies that are not operating under a law. I think that should be immediate. The Cabinet Secretary concerned, should make an immediate Statement that this should not happen at all anywhere. Secondly, is to amend the law so that we can introduce the Enforcement Officers Bill, so that it can be controlled in a manner that is well spelt out. In Uganda, a watchman goes to his job with a rifle. The culture in that country is such that even a person riding a bicycle can go with an AK 47 to guard a house without any problem at all. I do not know under what law they are operating in Uganda, but I do know that in this country, the culture that we have is such that if you allow people to take AK 47 rifles to guard people, you will find half of them attacking those they are supposed to be guarding. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we ought to move swiftly to ensure that we have laws to govern anybody who is enforcing anything, with or without a weapon."
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