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"content": "(Prof. Saitoti): Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all, I would like to thank profoundly all the hon. Members who have made contributions to this Vote. I am very much encouraged by the fact that hon. Members have realised on their own the fact that security plays a major role in the day-today lives of all Kenyans, and that no development can take place in any country without sustainable security. They have, therefore, come out to say clearly that security needs to be funded. I want to emphasise that point of view. In education, we say: If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance, and the consequences will be awful. I want to put it in the same way in terms of security. For a number of years, we have been shying away from allocating substantial resources to our own security agencies in order to enhance their capacities to deal with the challenges they face. Every time our security agencies are unable to effectively tackle those challenges, because they do not have enough vehicles, people end up condemning them. The police need vehicles to be able to respond very quickly to any challenge that comes up. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I said, one thing which I find useful today is the fact that hon. Members now appreciate that we need to have a very well equipped police force. We need to have the police force equipped in terms of the necessary motor vehicles, tools and equipment â the necessary weapons they need to deal with, for example, the situation along our border with Somalia. Our border with Somalia is extremely volatile. We know for sure today that we have an extremely dangerous body which is operating in Somalia, namely the Al Shabaab militia group. It is no longer secret that AlShabaab is working very closely with Al Qaeda and other terrorist elements. This was denied. We have a situation where quite a number of those people are coming into the country, disguising themselves as refugees when they may not be refugees. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we do not know what those elements carry. They have very sophisticated weapons. So, the police force, too, requires that kind of equipment. It requires the necessary vehicles. The police need motivation."
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