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"content": "Thank you so much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand here to also condole with my friend and colleague, Sen. Lomenen, because he is dealing with a very intricate matter that sometimes is quite surprising to many of us. I grew up in this country of ours that we love, listening to how many times cattle rustlers were running all over the place, killing people in the far-flung areas of Kenya. I thought those were people who were very far away, and I did not even have to be concerned about what their lives had become. As a Member who is very proud to be in the opposition, once again I am going to start asking the sitting government to explain to us why our people are being killed within our borders. I am going to be requesting that this House begin to interrogate and analyze what our responsibility is, as I have heard Hon. Sen. Ali Abass speak very ably. Why do we not start thinking about the legislation that we need to make sure that we are now beginning to pass laws and change some of the laws that we have, so that if we have to create border points police posts, and police stations, then so be it? Sen. Abass has also talked about border posts. The other day, as a Member of this Senate, we travelled to Mandera. I was shocked that Mandera is not a one-stop-shop border post between Kenya and Ethiopia even though you will hear that business is taking place, people are crossing over the border, and life has gone on normally. I wish that the Government would take Turkana seriously, and look at all the challenges that the county is facing. It is very sad to lose 20 people, and on some figures, we are being told the people who died could be 40. To make matters worse, these were individuals who are being killed and thrown into Lake Turkana. It is inhuman, it is unfair, but I think we also need to be more responsible. I agree with what Hon. Sen. Cherarkey said, where you find that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration is saying that this is a very small incident. It is not. The death of one person, like the brother we lost in Haiti, is one too many. We do not want anybody to trivialize cattle rustling, inter-border and cross-border wars. The truth is that we have the evidence, we have the people who know. I could use the Karamoja issue where we had the frequents war taking place between the Karamoja in Uganda and the Turkana in Kenya. President Museveni, for the first time, made a wonderful decision of picking his wife, even when I disagree about us employing our relatives. Mrs. Museveni actually solved the problem between the Karamoja of Uganda and the Turkana of Kenya. Hon. Lomenen, I wanted to say that our President could also pick Madam Rachel and even make her the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration if that is what could solve this problem. As a mother, she may understand, and I think the people might believe her more if she came in as a peace ambassador to make sure that 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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