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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": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. That is part of the various constituencies that I had given the criteria earlier. Where there is such an anomaly, you quickly operationalise those ones so that you do not have two people doing the same job in the same area. Hon. Tonkei also asked the same Question on who would come first. That list can be provided. Hon. Farah Maalim asked the Question of security strategy in the North, in dealing with the enemy across. I do not wish to say we are not doing what he said because this is not the right forum to announce our security strategies. However, his comments are noted. I am sure they will be incorporated into the security strategies because we also work with the elected leaders in the local area. Hon. Speaker, in dealing with the NPR issue, we are also asking ourselves, in the policy, whether some of the chiefs can be licensed as NPRs so that they can carry guns. Some of them already do so in some parts of the country that I do not need to mention. Unfortunately, when you give the chiefs these guns in some of these insecure areas, they become targets, particularly for the sake of the gun itself. So, there is a flip side of the same argument, but we will deal with that. The chiefs are already trained. They have undergone paramilitary training, but we will be announcing this. The policy also talks about the Question of NPR. Can you train them once, give them ammunition, and then leave them? Or they should undergo a refresher training often after a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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