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    "id": 1274509,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1274509/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "of attrition on their children and on their property. I really commend the strong spirit which they have displayed today. Long ago I used to drive from Kitale to Lodwar and the road was very good. Despite the spoilt parts from Cheperaria to Ortum, those days it would take a few minutes to drive there. There was absolutely no threat to security but over time we have lost many people there. I lost a friend called ‘Japheth Ekidor’, who was a Member of Parliament of that area, due to the insecurity of the area. The casualties can be counted from both Turkana and Pokot. I would say the first problem is that we have been attributing the conflict in the north as a fight for resources. Sometimes we say it is due to stock theft but I can see a new trend and a new cause of clashes and banditry. Banditry is a very dangerous thing because there is no community that can organise banditry against another one. Usually, in the traditional sense, if the people of Turkana have a dispute with the people of Pokot, they would go to war. It would be known that they are fighting over water and resources. Mediators would then be called upon to come and discuss the issue. When there is banditry, it is not a community interest but a security interest. I would plead with the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government and his Ministry to begin investing more on understanding these evolving disputes in the North and begin to see what kind of interventions can be made. Dealing with a problem in Lamu may not be exactly the same as dealing with a problem in Lodwar. It might also call for a change in the way we train our askaris so that we train some who are specialised in dealing with the mutating fight."
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