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    "id": 1418798,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "increasing approach of politicisation, ethnicization and criminalisation of border-related disputes. That is where we have an issue. Influencers be they political or otherwise want to take advantage of the differing opinions, on where beacons and borderlines lie among neighbours to bring in crime, politics and to divide the people of Kenya. We have made it clear in the national security sector that we are not going to allow criminals and characters who want to bring violence, crime, negative ethnicity and destructive politics in a very honest discussion among neighbours as to where borderlines lie. One may ask, if politics, ethnicity and the rest are removed from borders, then why should we have borders? Borders are still relevant for commercial reasons. For instance, the Majority Leader, who is the Senator of Kericho and the Senator of Kisumu, that discussion they are having around Sondu has some revenue commercial-related matters. The same with the distinguished Senator of Makueni and their neighbours in Taita Taveta. We have no problem with neighbours canvassing boundary disputes, so that they can deal with commercial and other issues that are innocent. What we will not allow is violence, incitement, negative and destructive ethnicity. Since I was asked what plans we have, going forward all these 27 counties, where there is that discussion among neighbouring communities, we are going as community managers, to facilitate communities to discuss and resolve that issue minus crime. The first thing we are demanding is that there should be no crime, incitement or perpetuation of ethnic anger as a way of canvassing border disputes. As soon as any counties that are affected remove crime, negative politics, ethnic profiling and incitements from the discussions, we will move in and I am sure we will find a lasting solution, so that commercial and other issues that are relevant continue unhindered. That includes what the Senator of Kericho has said that a market like that should be used to help generate the wealth of the people of Kenya. Whether they are in the Kericho or Kisumu side, they are the people of the Republic of Kenya."
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