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    "id": 1382078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "the State has a monopoly on violence, armed gangs will keep roaming around and killing people. We do not want to be Haiti where the State has lost the monopoly of violence to gangs. If we do not act in time, cattle rustlers can morph into other things. Since they are heavily armed, they can decide to declare a republic of their own. What will you do? Let us nip this thing in the bud. Let us crash and destroy the cattle rustlers. I propose that we should not be talking of setting up funds and whatever. There is already a provision in law for compensation for victims of crime. So, the State should be taken and held accountable to compensate victims of crime. I support the Motion and I call on the Kenyan State to step up to the plate and up its act. I have not seen anything that has been done to fight cattle rustling. The so-called disarmament ends up nowhere. Sometimes they create imbalance. You disarm one community, we leave another armed, and the armed community comes roughshod over the community that has been disarmed. With those few remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for the opportunity that you have given me to address this House. I support the Motion, and thank Sen. Cherarkey---"
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