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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "on to mention about border disputes involving Kisumu and Kericho counties, Taita Taveta and Makueni counties, and he discussed what those challenges were at the national level. He also said that he had issued a moratorium on the gold mines in the Marsabit area. However, he also said that his Government, as far as dealing with the border problems were concerned, he was going to implement some of these measures. The first one is creating peace building and conflict resolution programs. Where Tana River County is concerned, and especially the border skirmishes that happened between Kitui and Tana River counties, I laud the President that in his plan from this report, peace building missions, peace building initiatives and programs were going to be invested in by this government. We need those programs like yesterday. Our people, especially between Kitui and Tana River borders, where there has been a lot of tension need these programs to roll out like yesterday. I would have been happy if the President would have also said that he is allocating this amount of money through this agency to go to these peace programs. Why? This is because, when you go on both sides of the divide on these borders, it is the same people who are living. These are what we call resource-based conflicts. In fact, you wonder why people are fighting, but people are fighting, and actual dislike has a reason. Some people have even translated that to community hatred. These peace-building efforts must start today. I am mentioning them specifically because he stated in the report that was the number one thing he was going to do. We have a national cohesion body. That Commission needs to be empowered to carry out these missions. We need to have peace champions along those border areas. In Tana River County on one side, we are facing problems with Kitui and on the other side, we are facing problems with Garissa County. On this downside, it is with Kilifi County and because our county is so vast, people tend to think all the land is in Tana River. Our only good neighbours who have never shown interest in grabbing our land is Tharaka Nithi and Lamu counties. However, our other neighbours have consistently shown interest in trying to come for land from Tana River and this should stop. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the President said in that report on (ii) that that he will conduct an all-inclusive adjudication and delimitation of the land in Kitui."
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