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    "id": 1382111,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murgor",
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    "content": "Imagine a family that is forced to move from their home. Think of children, women and situations such as pregnant women and so on, that have to move from their homes and relocate to unknown, unusual, strange and new situations and the health hazards therein. Sometimes, they stay in the cold. They are rained on and go without food because movements make the food situation unstable. Therefore, these people suffer a lot from time to time. The reason I say that it should be a thing of the past is because it may be thought to be traditional, but it is no longer the tradition now. It has graduated to new situations and settings. For example, it has graduated to land issues which were not there before. It has also graduated to material things where one group or community claims or terrorizes the other in order to benefit from what is available in a given area. Pasture and water used to be a common source of conflict, but that is not the case now. It has become different. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are senseless killings and people get killed for no reason. Imagine someone riding a motorbike and getting killed on the road or a path, just like that, without having a goat, a cow or anything. They do not even take anything from the victims, but just kill and walk away. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Government should take very serious measures at this point so that this becomes a thing of the past. Some of the measures that will work in my opinion is development because those of us who have grown in areas such as these ones were neglected and left on our own by colonial administration and by our own Government after Independence. Things such as emphasis on education have not been with us. We are kind of waking up for the first time to children going to school. There is entirely no urge from family for all children to go to school. Therefore, a way should be found so that children from these families are taken to school. If need be, the force used in the colonial time may be used. I went to school because a chief came to our home and told my father that I have to go to school or he was to be jailed. My father had no option, but to let me go to school. Therefore, every child must go to school. Unless all children go to school, these people will continue to lag behind and cause mayhem to other people, including their neighbours. So, the emphasis should be on education. The second is on other development activities such as good health in the area. There is a need for health and provision of water so that waterborne diseases such as typhoid are stamped out. Roads should also be opened up in these areas so that these people are exposed to living in communities and can interact with the modern world to know what is happening in the world of today. The other thing I would very strongly suggest is that the unfriendliness of our forces, be it police or KDF, the old unfriendliness should be eradicated so that these people are made to feel that they are part of Kenya and the Government; part of what is likable and not the old perception that they are all thieves and are condemned wholly. My community, the Pokots are sometimes condemned very harshly. It is said that every The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services, Senate."
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