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    "id": 1547375,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, perhaps, you will create more time for me. What I am trying to say is that an operation means you do not only pursue bandits when they steal cows or when they kill people for a day or two hours. An operation is a systematic plan to pursue the criminals when they are not hitting people, when they have not stolen livestock and pursue them to their hide-outs, take away guns from them and recover the animals that they have stolen. That is what an operation is. When a raid happens, they pursue the bandits for an hour. Is that an operation, Hon. Temporary Speaker? It is not. I want to say it here before man and God that there has not been a forceful operation to remove the illegal firearms in the hands of bandits. God will bear me witness in heaven. The Committee knows it and they have reported it correctly. Who hits Baringo North? My people have never organised even one raid against any community. We live with the people of Baringo Central and Marakwet West and there are no raids. In Keiyo North and Keiyo South, there are no raids. What is it therefore? This country needs to know. Who is hitting Elgeyo Marakwet, Tugen, Ilchamus, Turkana, the Agikuyu in Laikipa as well as the Samburu? It is only when that is answered by the President, the Cabinet Secretary and each one of us, that we shall deal with the matter to the end. We know that it is not everyone in that community but there are criminals…"
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