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    "id": 1098773,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "The next question I ask myself is: why would a Cabinet sit to discuss how to fight the Deputy President, yet they have not sat to discuss the security of its own citizens? Why can the President not go for a Cabinet meeting to discuss the problems of Laikipia or Kerio Valley? Why is he busy discussing the security of his deputy? As the Deputy President said today, we have been told that there is an idle 15,000 acres of land in Laikipia that he is denying and the Government led by President says it is his. The Deputy President has said that it should be donated to citizens of this Republic. Why can we not donate to the grazers to use it now that it is not for the Deputy President or anybody else? Madam Temporary Speaker, I feel the pain. You do not know how it feels to attend funerals all the time as a Senator. I feel the pain because of the number of funerals that I have gone to in Elgeyo-Marakwet. When we go to the funerals, Senators, we always say that we will assist, educate and look for jobs for their children. This is shame. People are dying like rats in Elgeyo- Marakwet, Laikipia and Baringo. We must get answers today and not another day. Sen. Kinyua, it should not just be a Statement. We must make sure that CS Matiang’i comes before us and gives us his answers. My friend, Sen. Outa, you have the privilege and honour of being a Chair of a Committee despite the fact that you are on the Minority Side. Can you bite? You have pretended for 10 years as the Minority Side by saying that you will have a better Government. As the Chairperson of the Committee on Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, can you bring Dr. Matiang’i here and see whether you will bite?"
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