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"speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Dido Rasso",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I wish to join the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Sarah Korere and Hon. Mwangi Kiunjuri on what they have expressed this afternoon. I speak from the Floor of this House as the patron of the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group, as a former officer of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), and also the Vice-Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs of the National Assembly. As a Committee, we have managed to visit Laikipia, Samburu, Turkana, West Pokot, Marakwet and Baringo. We are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Kithure Kindiki, is doing so much and he has achieved so much. However, 20 per cent of work that is undone, co-operation between security forces and administrators and many cartels who have made the issue of insecurity internally in Kenya totally unbearable for quite a sizeable part of the Kenyan population. We have visited some of the areas like Baringo that have locations and even wards where the people have moved away because they cannot live in their homes and they cannot farm. I told both my colleagues and the population we found wherever we visited that we cannot allow that situation to obtain. I also agree with the Leader of the Minority Party. If we are able to deal with terrorists, people without faces and whom we can only trace on computers, telephones or in technological fingerprints, why are we unable to deal with bandits in Mugogodo Forest? Are there special people who are undertaking those criminal activities? Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs will table a report by next week following our extended visit to all the troubled spots. Further to that, we have said that the idea of blanketly naming the area, tribe and communities must come to an end. We must focus on areas and individuals. It does not matter whether they are leaders or politicians, people must account for what they are doing in terms of making Kenya unsafe. Hon. Temporary Speaker, what Hon. Sarah has raised…You know, we take many things for granted. You leave Parliament and without looking left or right, you go straight to a social place or home. However, many of those Members who come from those bandit-prone areas, unless they are adequately covered by security, they will not even attempt to go to their homes, let alone villages to condole with the bereaved families. I thank Hon. Sarah for raising this very important issue. I want to assure the House that, as a Committee, we are going to name names and troubled pockets in this country. At no point are we going to stop, even if the administrators are part of this problem. With those remarks. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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"content": " Member for Karachuonyo. 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"
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"speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to say a word or two on this issue of insecurity. It is a very sad thing to listen to the story of what is happening in areas where insecurity is prevalent. Seeing somebody who had his own home is living almost nowhere, perhaps, in the forest just for fear of his life, is a sad thing. The number one priority of any Government is the security of its people. I appeal to the Government to rise up to the occasion and do what is needed to restore peace, so that areas which are suffering can feel safe. Hon. Temporary Speaker, just as the Leader of Minority Party has said, I know that there are causes for all this. Are those causes unique to those particular places alone? It is possible those causes are in other parts of this nation as well. However, those places have not taken to arms to fight the battle that is going on elsewhere. It has potential problems in those other ‘peaceful’ places. They are, indeed, not peaceful. They have potential problems that are waiting to occur. It is important and necessary for the Government to rise up to the occasion and face the situation before it explodes to other parts of the country where problems are already on the surface. Talking of development, economic progress where there is no peace is a waste of time. Our nation will never develop if what has started in those areas that we are talking about is allowed to continue. We will not get anywhere with our effort. I know we pay a lot of tax so that we can improve our country, but then who will use the resources necessary for development if you do not know what is coming to you in the next day individually and as communities? If you know today and not tomorrow, you cannot invest or try to accumulate anything that would add to your wealth if you have any. In other words, the problem we are facing is a serious one that needs serious action for Kenya to develop and move forward. If we sleep over the peace, pretending that the development upon which we spend a lot of effort will be fruitful, we are daydreaming. I beg the Government to act now and not tomorrow."
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"speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
"speaker": null,
"content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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"content": " Thank you. County Member of Parliament for Isiolo."
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"speaker_name": "Isiolo County, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Mumina Bonaya",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this Motion that hopes to capture the deep pains that pastoralists and families in this part of the country go through in the hands of bandits that are roaming on our lands with a lot of impunity that anyone cannot imagine. While we could survive natural calamities like floods and droughts in this part of the country, it is very hard to stay safe from bandits because they are all over. They are operating with so much impunity. They can come in, raid, kill, maim and still get away with it. I present a case of an innocent Form III girl by the name Fatuma Waqo Wario, who was leaving school recently just after closing. She was on her way home to see her parents on 1st April on the Isiolo-Merti Road. She was shot dead by bandits. This left the parents and family so devastated and many other families so hopeless to the extent that they were even afraid of sending learners to schools anymore. Further, what has left many families so helpless is the fact that even after the bandits raided and took the lives and destroyed everything, it is puzzling that the State could not go after them and recover those herds of animals when they have complete intelligence on where the herds are and who is keeping them. To give you an example from my county, there are 147 camels that are hidden in Mukogodo Forest, just as mentioned by another Mheshimiwa here. The boma is known and the number of bandits involved are known, but there is no action from the Government. One is left to wonder: In a State where there are functional security establishments and machinery, why is it so hard to go after those people, even after they have destroyed life? Recovering the herds will, at least, give some hope to the families and 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"
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"speaker_name": "Isiolo County, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Mumina Bonaya",
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"content": "pastoralists. The security agents are not ready to go after the bandits. That can only embolden those bandits to come back again, kill and maim. And the cycle continues. This is a matter that has killed many hopes. It has broken families and taken away livelihoods. I cannot further describe it. And we cannot normalise it by making it look like a normal thing in this part of the country and that nothing can be done. As leaders of pastoralists, we feel that it is enough. It is time we re-looked at our way of handling bandits. If there is a need for us to have a conversation on how we could handle them differently, then this is the time. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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"content": " Thank you. Member for Marakwet West."
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"speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. I wish to thank Hon. Korere for bringing this Motion. As we speak, there are sections in this country, particularly the North Rift, that are under a militia. Those are sections of the country where there is no Government. There are young men, women and children who are wielding guns, and moving from one place to another raiding families, killing innocent children and women. In this century, there are no schools, churches and public utilities in those areas. It is high time we sat down as a country to discuss this issue. Looking at the history of this country, it developed along the railway lines. So, some areas were marginalised and are still marginalised."
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"speaker_name": "Marakwet West, Independent",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Timothy Kipchumba",
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"content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, when we talk about marginalisation funds that are set aside to develop areas that were left behind, it is unfortunate that they were hijacked and used for other purposes that they were not originally meant for. My opinion on this issue is that the person or office to blame for the run-away insecurity in this country is the Inspector-General (IG) of Police."
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