Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1284626,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1284626/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 311,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lomenen",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2940,
        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
        "slug": "james-lomenen-ekomwa"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity that you have given us. This is a serious issue. If I were the President of this nation or the Cabinet Secretary for Defence, I would have given Kenyans enough time to discuss the security issue in Kenya. It is true that the role of Government is to protect the lives of people and their property. If people continue to lose lives and property, they will go back to the state of nature where they do not respect the Government or the law because their lives have been threatened. I support my colleagues who have said that we do not have business with these other states. Our business is to protect the lives and properties of Kenyan citizens. This is not enough. We are taking the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to Somalia. My county, Turkana, borders Ethiopia, Southern Sudan and Uganda. For your information, there is no KDF that is in the Uganda border. As we talk, there is a rule that no Kenyan pastoralist should live in Uganda, which is serious. I just came from Turkana this morning. As we speak, there is a dispute between Southern Sudan and Kenyans at Nadapal. The forces that are there are very few. I was in Kainuk yesterday. If it were not for KDF who are working hard and committed to their work, Kainuk would not be there. The only nurse in that health centre was killed. A class 6 child was also killed. The child was not a KDF or a soldier but was just in school uniform. It is very painful. I cannot be in this House when I keep on losing officers who are supposed to protect lives and property. I lose doctors and nurses who are supposed to save people’s lives. I also lose children, women and elders. It is not in order. We should take this issue seriously. There are officers in Lang’ata Barracks, Kahawa Barracks and all over resting while others are suffering. Only 20 or 70 officers are in the borders yet others are in Somalia. Why do they earn a salary? They are supposed to protect our territories. Let them be in the territory instead of protecting these other states, so that we believe that Kenyans are protected. We cannot lose the lives of our officers at the expense of other States. This State is superior. We have given this Government power to protect us. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support this Motion. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate."
}