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    "id": 1238276,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lomenen",
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for this opportunity. I share deep grief with the people of Marsabit County who have lost their loved ones recently. It is very painful. I share the same grief because it is the same situation in Turkana, Samburu, Marakwet and West Pokot counties. Most of these communities indulge in unnecessary killings. It is abnormal for Kenyans to lose their lives almost every week, not to natural diseases, but through killings by shooting, torching their houses and burning government and commercial vehicles. Somebody just stops you on the road while you are travelling to maybe visit your family or for official duty and then greet you with a bullet. You then ask what you have done, but there is no explanation. As we talk, this issue of Marsabit County is very critical. We should not take it casually. It is deeply indulged in political affiliations and well-known politicians are part of it. I wish to advise the Government, the Senate Majority Leader, the Senate Majority Whip and Sen. Chute to take their time to sit with the leaders of Marsabit County and the President, so that we solve this problem of clannism. Ours is different because it is tribal conflict. We fight every day without notice. No one informs the other that they are going to kill people from Turkana or West Pokot counties. They just do it because it is their usual business. You will be perplexed that the killers are just children, who are below 15 years. They hold guns and kill people with potential in this nation. I support Sen. Chute. First of all, why do we have highway robbery with violence and no patrol? People are just killed and then the authorities visit the scene after the killings, record and then they keep quiet. For how long will it happen? Every time, people just---"
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