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    "id": 1100283,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1100283/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
        "slug": "kipchumba-murkomen"
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    "content": "The problem is not the livestock; it is not the community to judge the problem. The problem in Laikipia County is the Government’s inability to provide security for people in Laikipia, Baringo, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Turkana, West Pokot and Baringo counties to live in peace. If you go to Baringo County, it is not only the Tugen who are there. There are various first clans of the Tugen community in Baringo, but there are also Pokots, Njemps, Kikuyus and people from all tribes in Baringo. The same applies to Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Therefore, you cannot now pigeon-hole this issue to this community versus the other one. I think that there is a hand within the current administration that wants to use the Laikipia situation to divide people into communities, so that Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe here will come and disagree with Sen. Kinyua, fight each other and say that it is the pastoralists versus the farmers, and so forth. This Statement from Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe is timely and speaks to the issues without dichotomizing ‘us versus them.’ Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe is asking very important questions. Why would security organs kill livestock? Why would they destroy property? I thought they went there to protect the property. I thought they went there to restore unity and peace among communities and look for criminals. How come every time there is a cattle rustling problem in any part of this country, there is nobody who has been arrested and charged in a court of law? Even in the Laikipia situation, how come up to now, nobody has been taken to court? Forget about the question of rushing to politicians; where are the real perpetrators that are holding the guns and destroying and killing people? They do not need to have a tribal tag. They are bandits and must be dealt with as bandits, not because they come from community X or Y. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe is also asking another important question. What is going to happen to competition between pastoralists looking for grass and water and those who are farmers, who were established and growing their crops and protecting their grass, so that they can feed their livestock or sell the grass? What is going to happen? What is the Government policy on this issue? Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe is also asking: you have a Government that supposedly has 15,000 acres, which is supposed to be land for ADC Mutara Ranch. The CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government said that this property is owned by the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, hon. (Dr.) William Ruto. The Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya has said: “I do not own that property of ADC Mutara Ranch.” The Deputy President even went ahead and said that if you find any 15,000 acres of land in Laikipia of Mutara Ranch that supposedly belongs to him, donate it to pastoralists to go and graze their livestock. I want the Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to invite the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government, Dr. Matiang’i to come here and we officially donate that land. There is no need for verification. A Cabinet Secretary cannot just walk here and speak. The CS knows very well that there is 15,000 acres of land lying idle, that is neither owned by ADC nor the Deputy"
}