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    "id": 1518407,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to make some comments on two Statements briefly. The first one is the Statement brought by Sen. Peris Tobiko on Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Kajiado County. It is imperative that all of us should be concerned about GBV. For the past three months, seven women have been raped in Magadi. That is something we should be worried about. To make matters worse, yesterday, one of the rapists who was arrested by the police was released on bail. It is upon us as Parliament to try and figure out how we are going to address this issue of GBV. We may need to relook at the law. We know that everyone has a right to bail, even in murder cases. Senior Counsels Prof. Ojienda and Sen. Omogeni, we need to start thinking about how to address such issues. In other countries, people are even held without trial. This is something affecting our own children and mothers. It is imperative that we do this. This is something scaring our women of the Maasai Community in Magadi in Kajiado County. Secondly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to comment on the Statement brought by my good friend, Eddy Oketch. Eddy Oketch and I have been working together to try and make sure that there is peace between Narok and Migori and we have done a lot of work. I want to commend him for bringing this Statement about the tension and the conflict. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I request that you give me another one or two minutes to give some facts. There is conflict between the Kuria and the Maasai. This is as a result of our way of living. Kuria people are settled doing agriculture, but we, the Maasai, are nomadic. We have had historical issues to do with land. That is the boundary between Kilgoris and the Kuria in Migori County. So, this is not just an issue that can be resolved by the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. I heard Sen. (Prof.) Ojienda saying that the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations should go there and resolve the matter. This is a matter that needs us to look at the boundary and identify which land belongs to the Kuria and which land belongs to the Maasai of Kilgoris. I do not expect that Members of the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations will go to that area and force my people to go away. Our people have been crying. The whole border of Kilgoris Constituency, all the way to Migori, has got serious issues. We have the Kuria Community on one side, just like we have the Kalenjin Community neighbours Luos. It is a problem. It is time we dealt with these issues. There has been a lot of cattle raiding back and forth. You will find the Kuria raiding our people and also our people raiding the Kuria. That is something which has"
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