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    "id": 1216168,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "The issue of bandits and cattle rustling is one which the system understands. They know. I have always been of the view, and which I still hold strongly, that this is a huge enterprise. It is an international trade that has been fueling and supporting different political platforms. Let us cut to the chase and save lives now. Do whatever you have to do, but save these lives. Two weeks ago my staff were in North Horr by bus to donate food to people. They were crying because they could not understand how people can live there. There is no water. In fact, the only thing which is there is a road. I thank the former Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, and the late President Kibaki for having built that road all the way from Isiolo to Moyale. If you sit down with the former PM, he will tell you the story of how that road came about. The people from Moyale walked for over 15 days from Moyale to Nairobi City County to come and plead for the road to be done. When we come here, history is very important for us. It is important for the younger generation to understand how this country came to be. This country was literally built by the railway line. That is how the urban centres and small towns mushroomed and developed. To be able to connect the other part of the Northern Frontier District, it had to take initiatives and innovations from leadership. This is why I always support hon. Raila because of what he saw when he was the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works for that place to be open. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you drive from Isiolo to Marsabit, a distance of almost 270 kilometers, it takes two hours because the road is beautiful. Now that we have built the road, why can we not move security there and secure the people who live there? We hear that even vehicles are taken from Kenya and crossed to Ethiopia and are never released. The people know who took them. One wonders if we have a government that cares for all its citizens. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are parts of this country where if I tell you to go and live you will not survive for a day. There is a tribe in Turkana County that most people do not know about. There are parts in this country where one wonders whether this is Kenya or we are still living in the stone age. If you saw those pictures of these kids who were attacked they barely even have clothes. People are only surviving with the cows they have. If you find sheep there, you wonder what they are eating because the whole place is completely dry. There is nothing. If that is not enough, global warming has made it difficult for people to survive. This is a country where we pay taxes. Even those people because they have food and everything yet the country cannot protect them."
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