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    "id": 1418941,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kithure Kindiki",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Then the three last questions that have been asked by the various Senators. The first one is from the Senator for Marsabit County, Senator Chute. I am grateful for the remarks he has made about me and the work we are doing together. I am also grateful for the support that he and the entire political leadership of Marsabit continue to give us as security managers in dealing with a very delicate county with a lot of dynamics. Thank you very much, Senator, for the good leadership. We will be calling the leaders of Marsabit County to discuss the closure of Jilo Mining Sites in Dabel. We had a very bad situation in March where we lost seven people as a result of violence that erupted in the mines. Part of that violence involved foreign nationals who are not Kenyans. We had to shut down that mine because it was a big threat to national security. We will not reopen it until we are in concurrence with the communities and the leaders of the modalities of making sure that the sites will not be infiltrated by armed elements some of whom were planning attacks on Kenyan territory from those mines. The place had been infiltrated by elements associated with terror groups and others associated with insurgent groups and fighting groups from other countries. We had no option but to shut it down and cordon it off. Therefore we will be calling the leaders of Marsabit in the coming weeks once the prevailing emergency goes down so that we can sit down and discuss the modalities of reopening the Jilo Mining Site. I have been there in person and it is a beautiful place. The people of Marsabit and the people of Kenya should benefit from the huge wealth that is there. We will do so without undermining national security and prevent terror groups and other fighting groups, even from outside our country from using that to stage attacks and cause instability in our land. I will visit Ileret as requested by Sen. Chute. I will inform him and we will go together. The Senator for Machakos County, Sen. Kavindu Muthama has asked about the request for Machakos. I want to say the following- When we published the Gazette Notice of 14th February, 2024, if you look at the national diversity, which we are very keen to make sure we maintain, only 32 counties featured there. We believe each of the remaining 16 counties, including Machakos, are deserving cases of not necessarily sub-counties everywhere, but even lower-level administrative units, like divisions, locations, and sub-locations. The request, particularly from the leadership of Machakos, is deserving. It is a large county and some of the sub- counties like Masinga are big and even lower-level administrative units will be created. The next Gazette notice, which hopefully once we collate another cohort of counties will implement as much as possible the recommendations and the wishes of the 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 and AudioServices, Senate."
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