Elias Bare Shill

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to support the Motion and say that the KPRs or home guards are very crucial in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: (ASALs). We know how limited our security personnel are and they are not even near to the ratio that has been recommended by the United Nations (UN). Most of them are concentrated where the population is high, but arid areas are places where we have scarce population. Those are Turkana, Samburu, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and even Mwingi counties. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, the reason why this Motion is on, and I thank hon. Lentoimaga who was the District Commissioner (DC) Garissa and who understands the meaning of these things, is because it is the obligation of this Government to make sure that its citizens are really taken care of in terms of security. However, when the security personnel are few, you have to look at other ways of mitigating this shortage. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: An hon. Member said that we do not want to arm our civilians but already, they are armed. We have passed that stage. When you look at your television sets, you will see Turkanas, Samburus, Somalis armed and walking with their AK-47 guns alongside their cattle. Uganda has even armed their watchmen. You better have registered armed people than unregistered armed people because you will follow them and you know who has a gun and what gun number. Why did the civilians arm themselves? That is because they could not be secured. They have no faith in their police apparatus. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is not only about cattle rustling; it is about security. Recently in my constituency at a place called Galmagala there were only five police officers and Al-Shabaab attacked them and killed all of them. If we had other ten KPRs at that time who know about the terrain and can walk long distances, they would have followed those people. They would have secured the situation but this did not happen because we have left our civilians unarmed and we have not given them adequate security. It happened also in Dadaab Constituency. People have crossed all the ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: just because they were being hunted. If we had some local KPRs, then that problem would have really been solved. We have experienced those kinds of things. Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have spent a lot of the money from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) in building AP and police lines but they have now been deserted because in his wisdom, the Inspector-General (IG) thought that the police are now in danger. This is very interesting. If the police fear then who is going to take care of the civilians? It is like saying the medicine itself has become sick and ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Nkaisserry. I will not address you as a general now because you are also a Member of Parliament. view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will substantiate. In my constituency, five Administration Police (AP) posts have been removed. Consequently, schools have collapsed. Dispensaries have been closed because the Inspector-General of Police removed the APs and other police officers from that area, saying that their numbers are very few. That is a fact. If you want, I can take you there at my own expense. We do not want sycophancy. What I am saying is that I am mentioning places. Fafi is an example of a place where over 40 APs have been removed. The officers were stationed at various places in ... view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Having substantiated, can I continue, hon. Deputy Speaker? view
• 25 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, what I was saying was important. view