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    "id": 1401894,
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    "speaker_name": "Saku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dido Rasso",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I wish to join the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Sarah Korere and Hon. Mwangi Kiunjuri on what they have expressed this afternoon. I speak from the Floor of this House as the patron of the Pastoralist Parliamentary Group, as a former officer of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), and also the Vice-Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs of the National Assembly. As a Committee, we have managed to visit Laikipia, Samburu, Turkana, West Pokot, Marakwet and Baringo. We are convinced beyond reasonable doubt that the Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Kithure Kindiki, is doing so much and he has achieved so much. However, 20 per cent of work that is undone, co-operation between security forces and administrators and many cartels who have made the issue of insecurity internally in Kenya totally unbearable for quite a sizeable part of the Kenyan population. We have visited some of the areas like Baringo that have locations and even wards where the people have moved away because they cannot live in their homes and they cannot farm. I told both my colleagues and the population we found wherever we visited that we cannot allow that situation to obtain. I also agree with the Leader of the Minority Party. If we are able to deal with terrorists, people without faces and whom we can only trace on computers, telephones or in technological fingerprints, why are we unable to deal with bandits in Mugogodo Forest? Are there special people who are undertaking those criminal activities? Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs will table a report by next week following our extended visit to all the troubled spots. Further to that, we have said that the idea of blanketly naming the area, tribe and communities must come to an end. We must focus on areas and individuals. It does not matter whether they are leaders or politicians, people must account for what they are doing in terms of making Kenya unsafe. Hon. Temporary Speaker, what Hon. Sarah has raised…You know, we take many things for granted. You leave Parliament and without looking left or right, you go straight to a social place or home. However, many of those Members who come from those bandit-prone areas, unless they are adequately covered by security, they will not even attempt to go to their homes, let alone villages to condole with the bereaved families. I thank Hon. Sarah for raising this very important issue. I want to assure the House that, as a Committee, we are going to name names and troubled pockets in this country. At no point are we going to stop, even if the administrators are part of this problem. With those remarks. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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