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    "id": 1570157,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to comment on the Statement made by the Minority Leader, Sen. Enock Wambua of Kitui County, regarding banditry that has resurged in Kitui County. It is important that we call out the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, who is responsible for internal security. We cannot afford to continue having security problems while we have the necessary infrastructure with the Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this must be taken very seriously considering that we have also had killings, especially in North Rift where we even lost a Catholic priest to this kind of crime. We must see to it or persuade the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration to disarm criminals. Firearms should not be in the wrong hands. I believe that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration can do better in our counties. We must ask the Cabinet Secretary to be serious and do things that matter, and not get bothered with politics and who says what. Get to the ground and have the criminals disarmed and necessary action taken because this is very serious. Every Kenyan has a right to live anywhere in this country and to engage in any form of economic activity as long as it is not illegal. We must also protect our pastoralists and those who do other forms of farming, for them to be safe in their country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you allow me, I also want to comment on the Statement by Sen. Mo Fire on the welfare of the boychild who has been neglected for ages. Since 1985 when we heard of - I do not want to call it infamous - the Beijing Conference. We have been empowering the girlchild at the expense of the boychild. You would even see some laws that discriminate against boys. For example, if an 18-year-old boy is found to have engaged in a sexual affair with a 17-year-old girl, he is considered to have done what we can call child abuse or defilement and is jailed, yet they are age-mates. We must speak out for the boychild who has been neglected and also socialized not to speak about his problems."
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