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    "id": 1085200,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.47 (1) to make a Statement on the persistent state of insecurity in Isiolo County. Isiolo county has borne the brunt of relentless bandit attacks with the latest incident taking place in Madowale Village Merti County on 20th June, 2021. This Statement has been a little bit overtaken by events given that many more attacks have happened since I submitted this. You will bear with me if I inset a little bit from what is not on the Statement itself. This is because since 20th June, when I submitted the request, there have been several other attacks. In this particular case, three women and two men were killed and scores injured. Further, the incident led to the destruction of a borehole that served as a source of water for the community and their livestock. A header was also killed near the Kore Borehole on 18th June. These killings and destruction of boreholes and livelihoods have been going on even after the submission of this Statement. Allow me to convey my deepest condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones in these incidences. People have lost spouses and parents in these incidences. It is becoming a bone of contention in the county and surrounding counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, these banditry attacks that have mainly been targeting strategic boreholes and community grazing fields have claimed too many lives with women and children being the greatest casualties of the senseless, but well- orchestrated attacks that are going on. I am not saying this is unique to Isiolo. We have seen on television and read in newspapers and seen it in our counties. It is flaring up everywhere. We are wondering what our security apparatus are doing. I condemn these heinous attacks in Isiolo and everywhere else in this country, snowballing into a devastating crisis. If the perpetrators are not stopped in their tracks, arrested and prosecuted--- It is regrettable that this incessant violence and aggressions often leave a trail of destruction and blood for our people across the country. Specifically, in Northern Kenya where Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) have been disarmed. Big and small arms are in the wrong hands and still being used. Insecurity in Isiolo is not new. As leaders, we have brought it to this House several times, but the plight of the locals is yet to be addressed conclusively. We are now at a crossroads wondering whether the lives of people in Isiolo and around the country where these incidences are happening are worth anything and who is to stop these senseless killings. As recently as December, 2020 at least seven people were killed and two others seriously injured in a bandit attack in Kuri Village, Garbatulla sub-county. This is one of the various incidences that were reported to this House."
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