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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, just to conclude, my take on this Statement is that as a Senate and the Committee, we must be able to achieve two things. One, restoration of peace in Laikipia, but in a manner that does not divide the Laikipia people between ‘us versus them;’ whether it is pastoralists, farmers, this community or the other. Madam Deputy Speaker, you know very well that even people from your own community live in Laikipia. Laikipia is a cosmopolitan area, just like many parts of Rift Valley. We must achieve unity of purpose in Laikipia without dichotomizing the fight as ‘us versus them.’ Two, we must achieve justice. The criminals must be arrested. The Government cannot legitimize extrajudicial killings. As Sen. Orengo said, we cannot fight a good war by violating Chapter 4 of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We must do it in a manner that is in accordance with the Constitution. Therefore, in cases of extrajudicial killings, where people are being killed on sight, the perpetrators should be arrested. Of course, some of them are armed and dangerous and so, you can understand if equal force is applied, and they die. However, the effort must be to bring them to justice. Three, livestock are not criminals. Therefore, killing livestock is actually establishing a very terrible order in our country. This is a shortcut where the security are saying, ‘let us kill all the livestock.’ Therefore, there will be no competition for pasture and water. This is a shortcut for security agents. We must also protect the property of those who live in Laikipia, unlike this indiscriminate destruction of property. If we achieve that, as a Senate, we will go far. I was elected in this House in 2013 and have attended three security meetings on cattle rustling, every year. There were times when we could attend those meetings for four consecutive months. This is not a matter of ‘us versus them’. We do not have ODM, Jubilee or UDA when it comes to this. This issue should unite this House and this country for us to find a lasting solution."
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