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    "id": 1098591,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As we support the Statement from our distinguished colleague, what we are seeing happening in Laikipia County is a terrible shame to our country. It is actually collective shame to all of us. Yesterday, for the whole day, the British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) world service was beamed on Laikipia, probably because there are several British citizens who live there. Listening to BBC, you would have thought that Laikipia is a part of Afghanistan. It is such a terrible thing. Madam Deputy Speaker, the clips we saw coming from Laikipia are frightening. A rag tag group of youth who hardly look 20 are running around with very heavy weapons. I saw some in clips running around in Government vehicles. I do not know who was in that vehicle, but it was a Government Land Cruiser. They were menacing anybody in sight, with little children excited that they could see such armed youths, running after them in celebration. It is not right. We have a National Police Service (NPS). We have the General Service Unit (GSU), Administration Police (APs) within that NPS. We have the KWS that is armed. Why are we not deploying these detachments to Laikipia to restore peace? Why are we watching as a rag tag army of small boys is going around destroying property in broad daylight? We are seeing the Regional Commissioner engaging in helpless lamentations instead of acting. He is telling Kenyans and the whole world that this rag tag army has G16 weapons which he says are with the British Army then he withdrew. I heard the British High Commission saying the army that is in Kenya from the United Kingdom does not have those weapons. Where are these weapons coming from? What is our intelligence doing? What happened to our early warning mechanisms? We know that this is an area that has had security challenges. I lost my very good friend, a Provincial Commissioner called Chelang’a whose plane was shot down in that area. Every Kenyan life matters. Madam Deputy Speaker, under Article 96 of the Constitution, this House represents and defends counties and their governments. So, every single Member of this Senate is a Senator for Laikipia for purposes of this matter. We owe it to the people of Laikipia and the people of Kenya to speak it out. In fact, I would urge that the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations in which I serve with Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud and other Senators should actually visit Laikipia. If Laikipia is insecure for the people of Laikipia, it is insecure for all of us. If Laikipia is safe for the people of Laikipia, it is safe for all of us. I want to discourage any attempt in fighting this to violate the Constitution. I do not agree with my brother from Laikipia that the army should be deployed without due process. Article 241 of the Constitution states: - “To deploy the army in any part of the country for any reason of restoration of peace must be done with the approval of Parliament.” I do not think Parliament will resist in approving this. Let the Government bring any Motion to this House so that we can approve the deployment of the army. However,"
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