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"content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to answer Mr. Mungatanaâs question, yes, the cache of arms in Narok and the arrest of the 300 bomb detonators causes concern. It also reassures us that our security systems are working. That is how we bust Narok and Rongai. We have bust many more that have not come to the fore of the media and Kenyans. I assure hon. Members and the rest of Kenyans that we are secure, and that the Ministries responsible, that is the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security and the Ministry of State for Defence that sit in the National Security Committee with me, are doing their very best to make sure that this country is secure. More particularly, we must protect the soft targets like what we saw in Uhuru Park. We must secure areas that are more vulnerable than others. We have many people on a watch list who are regularly surveilled and checked. I am sure we do not need to parade all our security operations on the floor of this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Anti-Terrorist Police Unit is part and parcel of this operation with all other security arms of the country. If you may recall, they caught up with a man called Fazul, but since one of them bungled the engagement, he disappeared. They are working constantly not alone. Terrorism is not about Kenya. It is not about this region. It is an international network that we must continue engaging our counterparts in, in all the regions and countries affected by this. To answer Dr. Khalwale, yes, President Kibaki has already offered to Uganda material support, including support in medical terms for those who have been injured for treatment either by our doctors going there on a need basis or being brought here for specialized treatment. We are available to help them on that. He has also offered trauma and counseling experts, who can go and assist the injured and their families; they need to be counseled so that they can take this incident to heart. He talked about Eastleigh. I want to make it very clear that nobody wants to profile any community in this country. But we also know that apart from the close to 400,000 refugees in Daadab and Kakuma camps, we also have many Somali nationals who are walking freely in this country. Some have regularized papers while others are living here illegally. We have Kenyans living illegally in other countries as well. So, it is not something unique to this situation. We must continue being vigilant and dealing with these issues. You may recall when I informed the country that part of the difficulties we had with the visas of the UAE was because of the number of passports from Kenya that were being forged in Mogadishu and Somali nationals arriving with them in the UAE. The Ministry of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons is now dealing with that, and I am sure that very soon, they will come up with a forgery proof passport to secure the Kenyan document. On the question by the MP for Lari, everything has a price. Kenya undertook the responsibility and the lead to accommodate the prosecution of pirates. Other countries like Tanzania, Seychelles, Yemen have also taken on that responsibility. Uganda and other countries have offered to do so. There will always be some difficulties coming along with this. I do not believe that because people drown when they swim, we should avoid swimming. I think we must take the responsibility and play the role of a leader in the region. We must be ready to secure ourselves. No country was hurt and its economy damaged much more than Kenyaâs economy with the resurgence of piracy. So, we must take the lead. I have no doubt that this Parliament will fully understand the role as a leader in this region we must take in helping to secure the region and the interest of the region economically, politically and in security terms. Thank you."
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