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    "id": 91149,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the Vote as presented by Prof. Saitoti, the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security. One of the things that I would really want the House to take note of is that, in his presentation, the Minister has clearly indicated that he has a major deficit of about Kshs11 billion as a funding gap. At the same time, I think it would be important for the House to take note of the fact that, out of the Kshs45.6 billion that has been approved by the Treasury, Recurrent Vote amounts to Kshs41.7 billion. Therefore, that leaves just about Kshs4 billion as the Development Vote for the Ministry. One can very clearly see that, that is a very dangerous balance in the sense that it completely inhibits the capacity of the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security to undertake the very important programmes that he has outlined in this particular request and, especially, when it comes to equipping the security forces, being able to have the high impact security requirement and equipment that he would like to spread across the country. So, I would like to request this Parliament to consider his request with a lot of sympathy, bearing in mind that the challenges are now immense. We, as a country, will be forced to spend a lot of money because of the Somalia problem. This is a problem that we do not have any direction at all as to when it will end and the nature that it will take. As of now, we have seen very clear signals that, apart from the high refugee problem that is beginning to come into the country, we are seeing increased threats of terrorism being nipped in the bud. To this extent, I would like to congratulate the security forces because coming through the media, one can see that they have been able to intercept a number of potential trouble spots and areas where bombs were being planned to be detonated. Recently, there was a case of people being caught with plans of certain buildings in Lamu area, plans of certain buildings in this City and around country and bomb-making materials. So, clearly, we have a major problem in our hands. We do not know for how long it will last. So, this is something that will call for a lot of outlay in terms of security funds by the Government of Kenya for quite a long period of time to come. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to encourage the security forces, particularly the police, to make sure that just as much as they give Nairobi attention, they must have a clear strategy to give some of the other towns attention. What is happening is that the thugs are beginning to migrate from Nairobi to other centres in our country where they think that the security is thin. Here, I would like to talk specifically about Kakamega, where we have seen recent spates of armed robberies and some deaths. So, the strategy must be such that those people do not think that the rest of the country is a playing field and Nairobi is the one that is becoming extremely difficult. So, I would urge them to make sure that, that is taken care of effectively. We are also seeing increased attempts to destabilize the tourism industry and, again, in the course of this week or late last week, there was an attempt in Malindi, where armed thugs moved into some hotel premises, beat up the occupants and injured some of the people there. Those are clear signals that we are under threat from a number of areas. Arms are beginning to flow quite freely and this is something that needs clear surveillance. I also want to urge and commend the Ministry in terms of trying to equip – in spite of the limited resources--- There has been a fairly balanced effort to equip the districts. Both the police and district commissioners have been given Land Rovers. The Ministry should be encouraged to continue doing that. With those few remarks, I beg to second."
}