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    "id": 1100281,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "It is not the responsibility of Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe and Sen. Kinyua who have brought Statements for the Government to provide security in Laikipia. As Sen. Orengo said, we are here to ensure that we hold the Government to account. We will not accept. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg that our colleagues, the people of Laikipia and the people of Kenya, do not fall into this trap where they are told that their problems are as a result of a man because they are Samburu, Turkana, Kisii, Kalenjin or Kikuyu. The problem in Laikipia County is security. It is not the tribe of the people who are inhabiting Laikipia County. What is happening in Laikipia County is not unique to Laikipia alone, and I said it here two weeks ago. You were the District Commissioner (DC) of Marakwet and you dealt with that issue almost 20 years ago. Even before you became the DC of Marakwet, it was already there for another 20 years. The problem in Kerio Valley is a persistent problem that was there when President Jomo Kenyatta was the President. If you read the history of the Ngoroko, you will know that this cattle rustling problem has been bedeviling the people of Kerio Valley, from West Pokot, Turkana, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Baringo and Samburu. That whole belt of the Kerio Valley Region has faced this problem for more than 50 years. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the discussion we should be having here is about lasting solutions in Laikipia County. I met a Member of Parliament (MP) of the National Assembly who told me that his community was being targeted. I told him that his community is being targeted because he only heard about this problem today. We went to Laikipia with the Deputy President, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Interior and Coordination of National Government and the County Commissioner in 2017. We were in a big meeting where we launched the National Police Reservists (NPR) in Laikipia, all the way to Turkana through Baringo and West Pokot. We gave people in all these areas NPR officers to supplement that work that the police were doing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we did that because we were using a method that was applied from the days of Presidents Jomo Kenyatta, Moi, Kibaki and Uhuru. Suddenly, in the second term of President Uhuru Kenyatta, some other officers decided that they were going to remove all the local security that understand the terrain and were working with the police officers in that area, and left the people to be exposed."
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