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    "id": 1013620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1013620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13226,
        "legal_name": "Malachy Charles Ekal Imana",
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    "content": "There have been issues when you look at international boundaries between Kenya and Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan and Kenya and Ethiopia boundaries. As I speak today, people are dying on the boundaries. Today, the South Sudanese have camped within Elemi Triangle which is in Kenya and a conflict is brewing. People are going to shoot each other because Turkanas feel that the South Sudanese are stepping into their grazing land. They are bound to be conflicts here. Two weeks ago, there was a conflict on the boundary of Ethiopia and Kenya. There was an attack and four Kenyans were killed and they drove away 400 herds of cattle. These conflicts have been going on forever. I will bring a chronology here of what has happened. Many people have died over these conflicts. It is time the Government stepped in and resolved boundary dispute amicably. Even if the law that we should be enforcing has not been passed, the Government should protect its citizens along its borders. I am not sure why the Government is reluctant to step in, especially when it comes to international conflicts. As I speak, the Ethiopians are moving in to claim Kibish and Natodomeri because they say they are part of their country. The Government should be stepping in. The South Sudanese claim their border is at Lokichogio, but we know our border is at Nakoda. This is something that the Government must address regardless of whether we have the law or not, to ensure that there are no conflicts along the border. Even if the Government is not able to do something about the boundaries within the country, they should be do something about international boundaries. We cannot let people to be dying every time because of boundaries that should have been resolved long time ago. The other day, we had a situation where somebody drowned in Mombasa and we made a big deal of it. We went out there and tried to find out what happened. However, so many people are dying in Kenya everyday along these borders and nobody is doing something about it. These are many people dying because of border dispute more than those of are dying of COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 pandemic struck the other day, but we are all over trying to stop it from spreading and affecting many people. Why are we not stopping the fights and conflicts that are going on between our country and our neighbours? I support this Petition."
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