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    "id": 1488070,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gabriel Tongoyo",
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    "content": "2. Increasing budgetary allocation to police operations in the operational areas, including the modernisation program. 3. Posting and equipping adequate security personnel and operationalisation of the newly gazetted Ombolion Location to help improve coordination of security in the disturbed area. 4. Creation of more administrative units given the harsh terrain and vastness of the area and the population notwithstanding. 5. Establishment of the Police Station at Ombolion. 6. Affirmative action for education. The Government is planning to build low-cost boarding schools and encourage all school-going children from Turkana and Pokot to be taken to those schools. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on the issue of administrative status of Lorogon Village, including reasons for being administered from Turkana County and the measures being implemented to prevent that village from serving as a hideout for bandits, I state as follows: Lorogon is a disputed area at the border of West Pokot and Turkana counties, with both communities laying ancestral claim to the same land. Currently, the area is mainly inhabited by the Turkana Community within Lorogon Sub-location, with an Assistant Chief under Kaputir Location, Kainuk Division within the Turkana Sub-county. On the other hand, the Pokot Community claim the area is within Songok Sub-location, Korpu Location, Kasei Division within the Pokot North Sub-county. Previously, the area was not occupied and was used by the Pokot Community as a grazing field as well as a watering point at Turkwel River. However, in the early 90’s, the Turkana Community from the Kaputir/Katilu/Lopur areas moved to the areas to mine gold during which they set up temporary camps and renamed the area Lorogon Village. Subsequently, in 1986, more Turkana kinsmen moved to Lorogon to seek casual employment at the Turkwel Hydro-electric Power Plant. The population of the Turkana community in Lorogon village grew, and with the support from the County Government of Turkana, the majority established permanent resettlement. However, the settlement of the Turkana in the Lorogon area infuriated the Pokot community and subsequently led to their incensed attacks and counter-attacks. Those prompted the creation of the Lorogon Sub-location in 1997 and, subsequently, the appointment of the assistant chief. However, due to the prevailing hostility in Lorogon, Michael Loese, the Assistant Chief, is based at the Kalemorok Location, Kainuk Division within Turkana Sub-county. The following measures are being implemented to prevent Lorogon Village from serving as a hideout; 1. Intensifying police visibility through patrols; 2. National Government Administrative Officers (NGAOs) and the National Police Service (NPS) partnering with other stakeholders to hold regular peace- building and conflict management meetings; 3. There is an Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) camp at Lorogon area, which was established to serve the residents. In addition, there are other formed units to include a General Service Unit (GSU) Camp in Turkwel and Nakwamoru in Turkana South Sub-county to support security operations. Thank you. I submit."
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