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    "content": "ground. Some governors are running around claiming that they are the ones funding these projects. They want to use them as their campaigning tools and get re-elected. The Ministry of Energy should inform Kenyans that these initiatives belong to them and not county governments. This will help avoid situations where people are cheated by the governor that he has spent money on something that was not done by the county. Eventually, they end up benefiting for no reason from institutions like the World Bank. There are roads and footpaths that have been done in Kitale and Uasin Gishu. The governor there is running around asking for all votes because of the footpaths yet they were done by the national Government and also as a result of grants that have been given by the World Bank. It is good that these things need to be mentioned but we need to mention and assign duty and credit where it is due. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Head of State also talked about what happened in 2011 when we sent our people and army to go and safeguard Somalia in order to destabilize and make sure that the enemy that had come to bring destruction to our motherland is neutralized. It is true they have been there for long. However, as much as our army is in the middle and the interior of Somalia, we need to safeguard our boundaries. Some people say we should build a wall while others say we should put a live wire but we need to see how we can ensure our army have a station along the border. We need to have watchtowers and so on and so forth because we will not be permanently in Somalia. We may be there for 10, 15, 20 or 30 years but a time will come when we will need to make sure that our borders are seriously secured all the time. Madam Temporary Speaker, other nations are doing this by working closely with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and it is great that that is happening. The President elaborated by showing steps we have taken as a nation to make sure that we work with other international communities and Africans to make sure that peace prevails. The Head of State also talked about internal intercommunity conflicts and criminal acts including cattle rustling and poaching. He also talked about the inflow of illegal small arms and light weapons, how to deal with marauding bandits operating across the border and how to deal with terrorists committing transnational crimes. It was important to mention that but we should also find a way of dealing with light weapons. If they come from the border, what steps have we taken as a nation to stop and close the entry points of the illegal small arms and light weapons? I would like to know the steps that have been taken because the havoc we are witnessing in the north rift and parts of Kenya is because of the infiltration of small arms from South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. Somehow Uganda has managed to seal her borders. You have heard of young people carrying guns purporting to protect themselves. If we progressively close our borders, that will be a thing of the past. You can have disarmament but as long as you have a porous border, they can still come. So, the relevant Ministry needs to fine-tune what the Head of State talked about here. Now that we know where they come from, we should see how that can be sealed and eradicated to a position where we have zero coming in. 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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