Call for House to set up team on insecurity

Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria. The MP wants Parliament to set up a team to investigate increased cases of insecurity in the country. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

In Summary

• Gatundu South lawmaker Moses Kuria has drafted a motion through which he wants a 21-member committee established to help fix the problem.
• In the motion, he expects to submit today to the National Assembly, Mr Kuria has listed the Westgate Mall raid and banditry attacks in Suguta Valley in Baragoi and Kapedo on the border of Baringo and Turkana counties among cases that need to be investigated.
• Also providing grounds for the setting up of the team is the execution of 28 Kenyans by Al-Shabaab militants in Mandera nine days ago and terrorist attacks in Malindi, Mombasa, Lamu and Garissa.

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An MP wants Parliament to set up a team to investigate increased cases of insecurity in the country.

Gatundu South lawmaker Moses Kuria has drafted a motion through which he wants a 21-member committee established to help fix the problem.

At least 144 people have been killed since the start of the year.

In the motion, he expects to submit today to the National Assembly, Mr Kuria has listed the Westgate Mall raid and banditry attacks in Suguta Valley in Baragoi and Kapedo on the border of Baringo and Turkana counties among cases that need to be investigated.

Also providing grounds for the setting up of the team is the execution of 28 Kenyans by Al-Shabaab militants in Mandera nine days ago and terrorist attacks in Malindi, Mombasa, Lamu and Garissa.

“The fact the country’s security is at risk due to increased armed attacks by bandits and external terrorist groups calls for the setting up of the team,” the motion says.

Opposition chiefs, led by ODM leader Raila Odinga, have gone ahead to demand for the resignation of President Kenyatta, whom they accuse of failing to manage the country’s security