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    "id": 1537611,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1537611/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Lomenen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to comment on Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe's Statement on the insecurity of Samburu County. Security personnel are facing serious challenges in handling the issue of cattle rustling. It is the reason most of us sit down to listen. In the counties of Samburu, Marsabit, Turkana, Isiolo, and West Pokot, insecurity is prevalent. People are killed, and property is taken. Less is done to those people who are affected. This is because these communities have decided this is their state of nature where they just kill people the way they want and take property, and there is nothing that is being done to these bandits. This is why they raid homes, kill children and women and the statement of their action is not taken in a police station. We can take a case study of what happened recently in a place called Todonyang, where more than 30 people were killed in the lake Turkana. Up to now, their bodies have not been retrieved. Most of our borders are porous. For example, in Turkana County, we border almost three states: Ethiopia, southern Sudan, and Uganda. All these borders are porous, and there is a highly established insecurity in them. In our area, we have no Kenya Defence Forces to counter the attacks from the other states. Empowering the National Police Reserve (NPR) in these areas is important because NPRs are locally informed security personnel. They know the terrain and how to handle bandits because they live with them."
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