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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Malalah",
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        "legal_name": "Cleophas Wakhungu Malalah",
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    "content": "issue more seriously. I want to challenge the leadership of the security organs in this country to look into the Matungu issue more seriously. We, as a county, specifically Matungu Constituency, is understaffed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the police in Matungu Constituency do not have the equipment to fight crime. You cannot imagine that the entire Matungu Constituency has only three vehicles. One of them stalled, but it is being repaired in Eldoret Town while is the second one is being used by the Assistant County Commissioner in Matungu Constituency. Therefore, we only have one police vehicle to patrol the entire constituency. It is sad for me to witness people in authority politicizing this serious issue affecting our people instead of tackling it to its logical conclusion. If we want to deal seriously with issues of insecurity in Matungu, we need to activate the community policing policy that was put in place recently. The Nyumba KumiInitiative in Matungu does not have equipment to even report any incidents of crime. Recently, I visited Matungu Constituency and donated 100 mobile phones and 100 torches to the Nyumba Kumi Initiative, only to be arrested as a person who is conspiring to kill my people. It is very sad indeed. In the 2017 General Election, people of Matungu Constituency overwhelming voted for me as their Senator. What reason would I have to kill my people? It is sad that two days before I was arrested, I was called by a friend who works with the intelligence. I want to narrate to you this awful story. That friend of mine told me that they had done an intelligence report on the security situation in Matungu Constituency and handed it their senior security officials in Kakamega. However, they were told that report was not balanced or it was incomplete. They were told to complete it by inserting my name. It is sad that nowadays the intelligence reports are politicized. I miss the KANU era whereby the intelligence officers roasted mahindi choma on the streets or were shoe cobblers. Nowadays, we have children of rich people being employed in the intelligence service. Those children cannot speak vernacular. They cannot go deep into the villages to extract intelligence. I want us to revert to that system whereby we had even madmen being in the intelligence service. That is the only way we can get credible intelligence. When I was told that my name had been dragged into the intelligence report, my conscience was very clear."
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