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    "id": 1216142,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I only have three points, for clarification. However, before I seek that clarification, I am very saddened with what the CS is quoted to have said today. The CS stated that a school has been taken over by a bandit, who has given the first classroom to his wife, the other classroom to the second wife, the third classroom to the third wife and the fourth classroom to his son and his wife. In Kenya? Is this gangland? If fact, the officer who was recounting that story should have been dismissed on the spot because upon that officer witnessing that kind of thing should have wiped the entire school clean, so that the family would never live to embarrass this country. The truth is; it is impossible anywhere in the world to develop an area which is perpetually in war and conflict. We are killing a generation of people who come from those six counties. I seek to ask the following clarifications. Why is the Government of Kenya not taking action against politicians, some of them in the 13th Parliament, who are reported and have been seen on footage, airlifting bandits who have just come out of court? Why are they not arresting those politicians and ceasing those helicopters, which obviously come from the proceeds of these crimes? Secondly, there is a supply chain from the bandits who go into the homes of families, drive out livestock and go to sell them. If people drive out of a Manyatta with 800 herd of cattle, they must be having ready transport to take them to a ready market. We hear that some of the animals that are slaughtered in Dagoretti come from these areas. Why are you making me to allow my daughter partake that kind of beef? That beef is stained with human blood. Madam Temporary Speaker, my second clarification is the issue of police reservists. When is the Government going to stop this thing of police reservists? It is this thing of police reservists, where some people move around with firearms and you have no guarantee that they uphold integrity of owning a firearm. Probably, some of those firearms are eventually used to perpetuate the crime. Lastly, why is the Government not declaring that there would be 100 per cent disarmament? The problem in the conflict area is that when you disarm the Samburu, the Turkanas will attack them. When you disarm the Pokot, the Samburus will attack them and vice-versa. When is the Government going to declare 100 per cent disarmament and instead allow only officers in uniform, to be the ones with firearms in those areas? Madam Temporary Speaker, it is very painful. I have a clip, where five youths armed with AK 47 are running around a Government of Kenya (GK) Land-cruiser, blowing whistles and singing that they have now defeated the armed security."
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