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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have my rights under the Standing Orders. You gave me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I have not breached any order unless you want to throw me out. That is the only time I can terminate my contribution before my due time. In appreciation of my rights, the second point I want to make is that I had an opportunity to be part of a delegation that was led by the Deputy Speaker to visit another session in Somali Land from 22nd December, 2009 to 29th December, 2009. We made a report to this House and it is still pending for discussion. The Committee made certain recommendations which are similar to the ones the Committee that visited Samburu made in terms of dealing with our security situation. Another recommendation that the Committee has made is that the Government must take stock of all the refugees in the country. There is another recommendation about the vetting of people who are in the vetting committees. In fact, the recommendation of the Committee is that we must vet the people who vet others. This Report makes a further recommendation that it is the business of the State - and that is why I am contradicting my good friend - to intensify security patrols along the common border. The Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda borders are very porous because the Government has been unable to police them properly. Those of us who come from the border of Uganda, we have the privilege of visiting a county similar to Turkana called âMorotoâ. If you go to the place by road from Kacheliba, you will appreciate that every ten kilometers there is a military camp and base. You will even appreciate that they do not have the kind of married quarters that we have in Lanet, Langâata and Moi Airbase. They do not have the lavish tents that the Kenyan military detachments have when they are in peace missions in Turkana and other places. Of course they do not even go to the border. They are brought to Lodwar Town and other similar places where they can enjoy comfort. The Ugandan soldiers live in tents. I had an opportunity to visit a hut of a Major in the Ugandan Army. That is the difference. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have even seen them when they move from one camp to another. You do not see those Chinese-made lorries that, of course, have become more of death traps to our soldiers than the actual trafficking of soldiers from one camp to the other. The Ugandan soldiers move on foot. We have the privilege of having hon. Yusuf Haji as our Minister of State for Defence. He once told me that the colonial DO used to walk all the way from Garissa to Mombasa. In this House, we ask for vehicles for DOs. Mr. Ojode will tell you in this House of a programme to supply new vehicles to an OCPD and a DC when their productivity is nil. I have no problem with us living in comfort. I have no problem with our soldiers living in comfort, but they must deliver. They must stamp out insecurity. The issue of Somalia is not being handled seriously by the Government. This country has been bragging for a long time about being an island of peace. That is correctly so, except for the post-election violence which I hope we are all committed to ensuring that it does not recur. All our neighbours in the Great Lakes Region where we belong have suffered instability. I speak as the Chair of the Amani Forum, Kenya Chapter; a forum that is committed to a vision of a region free of conflicts. Until the day when Jesus comes back and gets a new rule so that there will be no more sinning, there will always be criminals and thieves. It is up to the society to organize itself in a manner that prevents the commission of crime. It is up to society to ensure that crime is detected, pursued and punished. Such a serious and cardinal principle of a State cannot be reduced to just an exercise of leadership, particularly of political leadership. Indeed, the issue of cattle rustling has for a long time been reduced to the political leadership or elders. We do not pay or elect elders in order to come and manage security. It is because of that kind of attitude - not taking things seriously - that you will witness an issue like cattle rustling."
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