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    "id": 1550261,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": "in a big way. Despite this, disarmament cannot just happen in one area. With the porous borders that we have with our neighbours from Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia, there is easy proliferation of small arms. Even as the Government plans to do this disarmament in the future or the long run, we need to deal with the supply of ammunition. We discovered that most of the ammunition used to attack people in the Valley and many parts of this country comes from our police officers. They are either procured from outside the country or from our factory in Eldoret. We are working closely with the National Intelligence Service (NIS) to establish the people within the National Police Service who are selling these bullets to bandits who kill our people. If we manage to deal with the ammunition first, we will have curtailed the use of that gun. We will reduce the gun to a mere stick. We will do a lot of work to ensure that this is done. Eventually, we must ensure we also deal with the long-term plans. For the benefit of this House and the country, Kenyans need to know that the people we call bandits are very young boys between the ages of 14 and 19 years. We need to ask ourselves a fundamental question: by the time teenagers are terrorising us in this Valley, where were we when they were growing up? They were unable to go to school or access education opportunities! There is a big problem in Tiaty Constituency and some parts of Samburu County. We have established that a whole division in Tiaty Constituency does not have a single road. There is another one with only one school, which expects small children to walk long distances to attend class. If we need to get rid of banditry, we must also eliminate the main cause, marginalisation. If we bring everybody to a point where they have water, schools and roads, each one of them will feel it is unnecessary to engage in this kind of violence. This House must make meaningful use of the resources otherwise called the Equalisation Fund. We need a major plan to open up these regions. If we do not do this, we will continue coming here and spending resources on operations."
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