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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On Sen. Chute's response, I was clear that we do not have money for compensation. However, with the support of National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) among others, some of the affected have been favoured in terms of bursaries, including bursaries from the county government. In addition to that, since we do not have money for resettling people, as the statement indicates, the encouragement was to make the conditions better for people to go back to their manyattas for security operations and then give them a chance to go back. As a result of the same, a good number of them have gone back. A few are yet to go back. On the evidence of the same, it can be provided to the Hon. Senator in writing. On the question asked by Hon. Beatrice Ogola, we have been and will continue being gender sensitive on disaster response. If you see what the Government did last year, a lot of focus was on issues that are going to affect the specific needs of women and children and this will continue. We will continue perfecting our responses based on the experience we get every year. I believe that gender-based sensitive measures are continually going to be revised to ensure that we are responsive and that we are effectively responding to disasters. Regarding Sen. Mungatana's question about the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI), we have a financial and capacity challenge at the DCI, and we are working to address that issue because there is a backlog. As you heard from my report earlier, the situation in Kirinyaga and the Tana River is still waiting for the ballistic report to come out. However, on my last visit to the DCI office, they made certain requests that we are trying to factor into the incoming budget. I believe that we should expedite the process because these are 23 guns, so you have to match each one until you find the one that was owned or used by this particular officer. Finally, on Sen. Lomenen's question, we will assess the security situation. We continuously receive intelligence reports about the situation between Turkana and West Pokot, including recent activities around mining areas in Aro and the border. We still have a dicey situation in some cases, but we will lift the ban as soon as we are ready to do so, and we can work together with local leaders. Thank you."
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