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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are shuttling down a very dangerous trajectory. You may sit here and think that those people can just randomly shoot cattle, but they cannot shoot you. I want to tell this House that to these people some of us do not have any value, forget about those cows. They look at you and they can easily kill you. It is really unfortunate. I understand where Sen. Olekina is coming from when he says some of us no longer have faith in some Committees of this House. I mentioned this yesterday and I will repeat it today that as a House we must rise above partisan politics. We must toe-the-line. Even if some of us sit in some of the lounges of these Cabinet Secretaries seeking for favours here and there, we must separate that when it comes to the work of this House. How comes so many weeks after these pastoralists have been killed, people have been displaced, that Committee has not found time to deal with the issue? A few weeks ago, the Committee on Security of the National Assembly spent a whole four hours on national television discussing the security of the Deputy President as if that is something that is important. If you found that to be important, surely why can you not find time to appear before Parliament and discuss the lives of these pastoralists that are being killed? We must be serious. We must rise as leaders and do that which is right for this country. I want the Inspector-General of Police to sit before this House so that I can ask him, what is his understanding of Article 245? I am sorry to say this, but approved him. Mr. Mutyambai is behaving like a puppet on a string. All he does is just to follow around the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. In fact, when he appeared before Parliament he was not even the one answering questions. If that Committee of the National Assembly had intelligent people, the one question they should have asked is that constitutionally Article 205 states that the IG of Police is supposed to exercise independent command of the police. The only relation he has with the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government is to write to him and that instruction must be in writing and only on matters of policy. It cannot be about directing how he does his job. Therefore, we need to be told who gave this command for: 1. People to burn cattle. 2. People to kill these animals 3. People to kill other human beings. These excesses of the Executive have got into these people’s heads such that they no longer have even regard for Parliament. They said that, that is an operation zone that even Parliament cannot go there. Have you ever heard of something like that? I am sure even Sen. Orengo who has been in this House longer than all of us in his entire life has never heard anything of the sort that the police can tell Parliament not to feature in any particular place. Even in war, there are rules of war. These are not the kind of hearings that I want to be done here. All of us should troop to Laikipia and have a sitting there so that those people can speak and share their challenges with us."
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