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    "id": 1003453,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "were on their way to address these issues. Unfortunately, we lost of all them and we seem not to have learnt from that. We know that Moyale Constituency had experienced serious fighting between 2012 and 2014 which resulted in Kenyans becoming refugees in Ethiopia and houses being burned. This has been recurring. The conflict in Marsabit has been documented and analysed over a long period of time. In my short study of the conflict, I have come across not less than 10 documentations. When you go through them, they have all analysed and noted that the causes of conflict are the same and the reason why it is recurring is the same. However, because of it not being addressed by the national Government, this recurrence has been there. In fact, reports are so clear and they will tell you that the causes of these conflicts are political. Devolution, which is supposed to be a blessing to us the people from marginalized areas, is now becoming our undoing. What is there is ethno-political in the sense that communities are fighting each other to gain control of resources. First, it is formation of political alliances to gain control, people being incited against each other and the expansionism tendency of some people due to acquiring more land. From the reports, they are saying that there is some urban cause of conflict in terms of when you have the governor, then the issue of who gets the contract and the money comes in. Therefore, you have to make sure that the governor in place is from your community, and it is becoming another urban source of conflict. That is what we are experiencing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with all these problems, I would like to thank the Marsabit Interfaith Council; a group of religious leaders from churches and mosques who have come together and tried to address this issue. In September, 2018 when this thing started around Orodere, they came in and called all the leaders. We called the clan elders of the communities involved and tried to talk to them. The Interfaith Council members have gone as far as risking their lives, going to the warring communities whereas they come from the other community. They had to risk their lives to go to a community which is warring with their community so that they can preach peace. Unfortunately, I know that some people have questioned the credibility of the Interfaith Council. Naturally, if you are from the church or the mosque, you are from that community within the county. Some people have said that they do not trust them because they are biased, but I have faith in them. I hope they will not lose heart because of that, and they will continue with their work, so that we can sit down and see how we can bring the warring communities together. We have to understand that we have a short time to live in this world and we cannot take anything anywhere. Everybody will end up in a small grave. People should not be fighting over land. People should not be killing each other because somebody wants to access power. Unfortunately, what is going on is politicians trying to sustain this fight, so that when it comes to politics they say: “This guy has not performed and I need to replace him” while they have been playing dirty games keeping the guy busy trying to solve security issues. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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