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"content": "leadership of this country by disciplining the rogue leadership from our neighbouring country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Uganda is not a good neighbour. As I speak now, Ugandan military officers disguised as cattle rustlers in Kanyarus, Katkimor and Kanyarkwat in North Pokot of Kacheliba Constituency have uprooted beacons. They come to Kenya and take our cattle. As I speak now, they are holding over 400 herds of cattle purporting that the owners must pay a fine of Kshs50,000 to take them back. If they fail to do that, the disguised soldiers will own those particular herds of cattle. Uganda cannot be deemed to be a good neighbour. By doing what they are doing now, they are simply repeating what they did last year in Kacheliba, all the way to Kapswor. No Minister in this House can convince me that he is defending a good neighbour called Uganda. How I wish you were a Pokot in West Pokot or a Luhyia in Sabaot and Kwanza, to see how our people are harassed, arrested and incarcerated in Ugandan prisons for you to know how we feel about those acts of aggression. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, those acts of aggression that are perpetuated against Kenya are actually in keeping with the standard mind-set of the Ugandan leadership which feels that they are small and should have been a bigger republic in Africa. That expansionism theory of theirs is evidenced by their acts of aggression against Rwanda, which you all know, their presence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which you all know and their presence in Southern Sudan, which you all know. Therefore, we must condemn it, lest President Museveni thinks that when the leadership in this country changes from the current leadership to this young leadership that I am seeing on this side, he will expect to be treated in the same way. There is no way that he is going to be treated in the same way. I submit here and now that the Kenya Government is not doing enough. It is sleeping. We expect the Government to do more. Indeed, when you see our youth in Kibera, the residents of Migingo, Pokots in Kanyarus, Katkimor, Kanyarkwat, Saboat in Kwanza take up the law in their hands as evidenced by the uprooting of the Kenya Railway Line in Kibera, Kenyans are by so doing asking: Where is the Commander-in- Chief of the Armed Forces? Where is the President of Kenya? I do not know what else the President would like Kenyans to do for him to realize that they are calling him to command the Armed Forces of Kenya. Life is so unbearable to Kenyans in those places. They are harassed and arrested by the Ugandan Peoplesâ Defence Force (UPDF). At the time when those poor Kenyans are being arrested, the leadership of this country is in State House, wining and dining and talking about diplomacy being the answer to the challenge that we are facing today. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Kenyan Government has miserably failed to offer security in West Pokot, leaving marauding UPDF to be countered by only three Administration Police (AP) officers. At any one time, one officer is off-duty, the other one is on night-off and that leaves only one AP to face all those marauding officers. As if this is not enough, the nearest District Commissionerâs office is over 150 kilometres away from the border. Can we take this as a sign of a Government that is serious in protecting our territorial integrity? Of course, the answer is no! The Ugandan flag keeps on flying on Kenyan soil while our well-trained military officers wine in officersâ messes here in Nairobi and other officersâ messes across the country. They are not doing it because they like it. They are prepared to act. They do it because nobody is commanding"
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