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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security (",
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    "content": "Mr. Lesrima): Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. To begin with, I want to congratulate the Speaker for his landmark ruling which brought back this country from the brink of collapse. That ruling has allowed us to move forward. I hope that our leaders will stop being in a permanent state of campaign. Kenya’s leadership appears to be permanently in a campaign mood. After one election, we embark on the next campaign almost immediately. We are always looking for a President or the next leader to begin to deliver. We are permanently in that state and we do not seem to be ready to start working or even to continue where we began. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I commend the President’s Speech on a number of issues raised. One of the issues is that of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The issue is very much alive although we say that there has been 90 per cent success. I believe that it is less than that in some areas. What is important is not even the construction of police posts or Administration Police posts but to strive for reconciliation. But you cannot have reconciliation without justice. We need reconciliation between the communities that were affected during the post-election violence. We must also think about “IDPs” in Marsabit and Samburu West Constituency, which is my constituency. We have people living in huge camps which they created on their own to protect themselves from their neighbours arising out of conflicts with regard to fighting over resources like land. This kind of situation should not be allowed to continue in a modern Kenya. We are paying a lot of attention to IDPs in other parts of the country, whereas we should adopt a sense of equity and also get very much concerned about those marginalized communities that live under great fear. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we should also check whether the so called cattle-rustling is still the old traditional cattle-rustling. Modern cattle-rustling has become commercial. The raids are not reciprocated, not mutual or traditional. In fact, these days, successful large scale cattle-rustling requires partnership with conflict entrepreneurs."
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