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    "speaker_name": "Mogotio, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kiborek Reuben",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity. Cattle rustling and banditry are very emotive issues. They have a historical background of marginalisation and other things by previous governments. Before and after independence there were deliberate measures by pre-colonial and post-colonial governments to develop high potential areas and highlands around the railway lines like Mombasa, Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu and Eldoret where there were white settlers and others. The marginalised and hardship areas were deliberately left out. I want to implore upon this House, because it makes the Budget of this country, to deliberately put resources into these hardship areas. They are part of this country and we need to move together and not have two countries in one nation. We do not want to have Kenya “A” and Kenya “B”. I want to ask Members of Parliament, in their committees, to ensure they deliberately give money to marginalised and arid areas that have been left behind for many years. We have heard Members debate in this House the problem of cattle rustling and banditry. Everybody is pulling to his or her side. If you come from Turkana, you pull from that side; if you come from Marakwet or Pokot, you pull from that angle and so are those from Tugen, Samburu and other communities around there. To get a solution to this problem we need to remove emotions from it and stop pulling tags in different directions to get publicity or support back home. To be honest, when you disarm Turkana today, tomorrow they will be raided by Toposa from Sudan. When you disarm Pokot, they will be raided by Turkana. When you disarm Samburu today, they will be raided by Pokot tomorrow. When you disarm Marakwet they will be raided by Pokot and vice-versa. Those in Baringo are naturally disarmed so they have become the punching bag for everyone. To get a solution to this problem the Government should first protect and guard our borders with Sudan and Uganda. They should not leave their business of protecting this nation to civilians. The Government should protect Kenyans from bandits from Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda. It should disarm everyone, take all the guns away and make sure the National Police Reservists (NPR) is done away with because the Government should protect its own people. Hon. Temporary Speaker, Tiaty in Baringo County has been a source of insecurity. There is only one police station in Tiaty. When you want to get the bandits, you transport police 100 kilometers to Nginyang - it is a 4000 square kilometers area in terms of land mass. I applaud the work done by Kindiki. The first thing we should do is total disarmament of all these communities. We need to disarm all communities that are fighting all the way from Borana to Isiolo, Turkana, Baringo, Elgeyo Marakwet, West Pokot and Samburu for this country to have law and order."
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