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    "id": 1218736,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First, I want to start by congratulating my sister. I know the pain she feels. Bringing this Motion here already exposes her to risk. I pray that Allah protects her so that they do not get her. I know that the perpetrators of these heinous acts are watching and saying that she is interfering with their business. I am very sure that as, a woman, she cannot come here and tell us what is not true. There must be some truth in what she has said about who is financing the bandits. I may not know who the person is but I beg that we listen to her. I believe that this Government has an opportunity to do something. They should consider her statement, protect her and find the truth. This is a woman, a mother and daughter speaking. Honestly, it is painful. I was born many years back but I remember when the late Daniel arap Moi was the President, there were some people called shifta . He made an order and within 40 minutes there was no human being left called shifta . What government do we have to day? The Pokot population is merely 621,000. You can interview each one of them and get to know who is a bandit. Either the Government is not concerned or it is not serious about solving this problem. If it cannot take up this matter, we, as women, wives, daughters and mothers are the ones who will get affected the most. We will take to the streets and find a solution to this matter. This is because the Government is not taking the matter seriously. It is taking this major issue for granted. When my sister talked about her voters, she did not mean that she wanted them to vote her back. She merely meant that she is losing a big part of the population that voted for her. This is exactly what she meant. She is here to speak on behalf of the people who voted for her as a mother in this country. So am I. This Government needs to tell us if it is unable to protect its own people from fighting within and outside like the Al Shabaab . These terrorists are watching and wondering what kind of a country we are. This is because we cannot handle a war amongst ourselves. They are seeing this country as weak, and we are becoming a target. We are showing them that we are unable to take care of our people. So, the bad people out there are soon coming for us. Sometime back, I saw a joke from Uganda about a certain person who wanted to take over this country within three minutes. I am seeing the bad people will take us within a second, if we cannot take care of such a small community. This does not affect me in Migori County. I sleep with my doors open because we do not have bandits there. We do not know these kinds of things in Migori. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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