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    "content": "Rongai. Security personnel had to make sure that they carried out a thorough search and surveillance. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the case of Eastleigh, people were told that a grenade was lobbed into the vehicle. We carried out investigations. We also brought in some very qualified people in the area of explosions from some of our friendly countries. It was established clearly that the particular grenade was actually under the front passenger seat of the Land-Rover vehicle. So, it was established that the grenade was not lobbed into the vehicle. It happened that the person who was killed was a police officer, who was in that vehicle. Even the way that police officer was killed is that he was actually blown upwards. We are carrying out investigations to establish how a grenade could have been taken to a Government vehicle and put underneath the vehicle. Unfortunately, that particular police officer died. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is important that we, as Members of Parliament, understand that crime is getting more and more sophisticated. Secondly, we cannot deny the truth, that some of our neighbouring countries are going through a period of instability, and there are far too many weapons there. The truth of the matter is that there has been a continuous proliferation of light weapons and arms. That is a fact. So the onus is upon us to increase the surveillance and our preparedness and ensure that we get the sophisticated equipment to be able to deal with this matter. That is where we are now. That has happened in Uganda and you saw what happened. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was also another question that was asked; how come it appears like officers in Uganda are more sophisticated in matters of surveillance than we are. I want to inform this House that as a matter of fact, the Ugandans have been able to get quite a bit of collaboration from us. Even on this particular material day, because when this person died, the police were able to get hold of this gentleman’s mobile and were able to offload it and find out the contacts that this person had and who he had rang. One contact was actually housed in Kampala. The information was conveyed to the Ugandan intelligence about a certain vehicle. That vehicle was stopped by the Ugandan security personnel and it was found to have some weapons too. So we are doing the best we can."
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