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    "id": 1218669,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Cecilia A. Ngitit",
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    "content": "Many people have lost lives and property. As we sit here, many families in the Turkana Region and I believe in the other regions too that I mentioned, have been rendered poor. They have lost their livestock to this banditry menace. As you know, in those regions, livestock is the main livelihood. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we have lost many properties to the banditry menace. We have lost schools and facilities like hospitals which have been burnt down. It is no longer cattle rustling as people say. The conflict in the North Rift has become a land issue. As you can observe, when these people are raided and killed, the perpetrators of this heinous acts move to settle in those places. This means that their main aim is to chase away people from their ancestral land in search of enlarging their territories. We have lost Government officials to this menace. The former President gave a directive after Kenya lost over 20 General Service Unit (GSU) officers in Kapedo. The perpetrators would just go on and say sorry to the President and that they thought they were Turkanas – and that was on record. The bandits went ahead and donned uniform, took away the guns and killed more Kenyans using our own ammunition. There are instances where when you go to the war scene, you get to know that some of the cartridges of war are our own and made with Kenya labels. This means that these bandits are accessing ammunition from Government factories. Today, I want to thank the President of the Republic of Kenya. As the head of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) in this country, he ordered that the KDF be deployed in these areas that have recorded high numbers of attacks. As we speak, although we do not have clear information; this is the august House and we are not allowed to share rumours here but we can share what we have heard out there. Word has it that some leaders in this House are on record for financing this menace and they have gone ahead to contribute money to compromise the KDF commanders so that they do not carry on with their duties as directed by the Commander- in-Chief. As we speak, there is an ongoing operation in those regions but there are still attacks and raids. There are students who are not going to school. Their schools have been burnt down yet the operation is still ongoing. We do not understand the distance between the KDF camps and the location that the bandits are operating from. There are video clips making rounds in the social media showing drones that belong to KDF. They have seen where the bandits are hiding, cooking and even taking their breakfast. The bandits are even attempting to shoot the drones yet nothing is being done. We just want to know this person that is above the President that these bandits depend on. We have seen leaders making inciting statements and nothing has been done about them. We have even seen a leader threaten the Government that if they bring them anarchy, they will serve them anarchy in huge doses. The Government has not done anything to them. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the financiers of banditry in the North are in this House. They are sitting pretty and the Government is just looking at them. We want the Government to smell the coffee. It is no longer business as usual. Banditry has now gone to the level of terrorism."
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