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    "speaker_name": "Laisamis, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marselino Arbelle",
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        "legal_name": "Marselino Malimo Arbelle",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I join in sending my heartfelt condolences to the people of Rabai for losing Hon. William Kamoti. I extend my condolences to the people of Kilifi County. I support the amendments of the Committee to the Standing Orders. I have noted that, indeed, as much as the Offices of the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party are anchored in the Constitution, their election and removal from office has not been anchored in the Standing Orders very well. Therefore, it will be very vital to us if we know the process of their removal and election into office. Secondly, as much as we have brought many Petitions to this House – I have brought almost three Petitions – I have never known or been informed about the tail-end of those Petitions or their outcomes. That affects our people so much, particularly my community in Marsabit County and Laisamis Constituency, which I represent. You can imagine we are engulfed in insecurity. Just the other day, two weeks ago, the Assistant Chief of Logologo Location and five other people were killed as they pursued cattle rustlers from the neighbouring county. Until today, even after we have lost civil servants and many animals, we have not recovered those animals. I have placed a Petition and I am waiting for the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security to visit that area. We also have within that locality quite a number of people, about 6,000 people, from neighbouring countries, all the way from Somalia and Ethiopia. They have converged there trying to earn their livelihood, but they are also engaged in some illegal business. They have illegal firearms and that is what is creating insecurity around that area. So, you can imagine that kind of environment where people are being harassed. People are not sleeping in their homes because of the influx of illegal firearms into the country from neighbouring communities or countries. Even if I bring that Petition here, there is no much information that we, as the peoples’ representatives, get so that we know whether the Government is defeated or something like that. For those few remarks, I support."
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