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    "content": "Foreign Affairs, I complied with the African Union (AU) requirement and had our maritime boundary extended under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) direction for an extra 245 kilometres running latitudinal from our confluence of the boundary with Somalia across the ocean. Somalia is now claiming that at the elbow of Kipini, the boundary must run longitudinally. That means that Kenya is going to have such a small maritime territory. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, how can Somalia threaten Kenya yet what we see is a conspiracy of silence? Knowing the kind of corruption that is running through this country, probably somebody is making money on the Somali claim to keep quiet and say nothing. The world over, you establish your legitimacy on territory with presence. Somebody does not claim that your part of the territory is theirs and you run to The Hague court to file a case and you do not even have presence in the territory. When Nigeria and Cameroon went to the World Court to fight over the Bakassi Peninsula, the big question was who was present there. It was established that the Bakassi Peninsula was occupied by Cameroonians. They had their police officers and other things there. Nigeria was trying to bully them. The World court ruled that on the basis of presence, occupation and historical data which was the third limb, the territory belonged to Cameroon. Somalia is now claiming our maritime area belongs to them and yet we have no navy officers there patrolling and warning Somali bandits, that if they go there, they will torpedo their boats. Nobody is talking. All we hear is the Attorney General saying that we are going to The Hague which does not give anybody territory. You have to occupy your territory. Our fishermen are routinely arrested and terrorized as they fish in our territorial waters in the Indian Ocean and yet we have a Government in place. Kenyans pay taxes which must help protect them. We can now see through very opaque procurements that they are busy buying armored vehicles for police officers. Armored vehicles are not for police officers, but they are meant for the army. Police officers should be trained well, have sufficient numbers, integrate them in population and use intelligence. Armored vehicles do not gather information about criminals. Intelligence is what infiltrates criminals to have them arrested. Which robber will stand on the streets to wait for an armored vehicle to come and burst him? We have our priorities upside down. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, fishing in this country has made certain categories of people billionaires while the fisherman at the shores of Lake Victoria cannot afford school fees for his children. All this is because of lack of policy and programmes by the Government. A good Government would have set up decent landing bases and cold rooms so that when a fisherman arrives in the morning from the lake, his Omena goes to the women who go to sell it because nobody exports it. The rest of the catch is weighed and they are given their record and then the Government takes responsibility from there on, marketing and paying the fisherman value for money. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have systematically destroyed every production sector in the country; for example, coffee is gone. You and the young Senator from Kericho County will be shouting yourselves hoarse that you are Jubilee; you can see what is happening in the tea sector. Bonus to your farmers is half what other farmers are getting and yet you are busy clapping and saying: “Sisi ni Jubilee. Tutatawala milele” . 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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