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"content": "That is the Public Service Week slogan. Then there is the Rapid Results Initiative (RRI) in 100 days, which is only three months. Where are these slogans? Are they meant for Nairobi only and other provinces or are they equally applicable to all the corners of the Repulic, including northern Kenya? We demand action from the Government, that it shall no longer be business as usual in Turkana, Pokot, Samburu and Moyale. We want the Minister to investigate some elements who are accused even in this House of propagating this vice through our people commercialising cattle rustling. This House - I want to assure the Minister - will remain alive and will monitor the actions by the Minister on this particular incident and many others. Indeed, even in the afternoon, I have a Question which is on our international borders on the same issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Ministers need to take issues brought by hon. Members seriously. That matter, particularly even before the raid, was presented to the Government and there was no action! Now, we have a Police Commissioner, a Provincial Commissioner and a Provincial Police Officer whose task is just to deny. Those days are gone! We are sorry! The days of living in self- denial are gone! If you cannot access the place, how can you even deny? One hon. Member is just bringing denial reports here. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, old women always become uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. Let us not be jittery about that issue. I want our credentials to remain intact. I do not want to condemn a single community. Those are equally Kenyans! I want to condemn the inaction by the State operators! Why am I not condemning a community? I am also hoping that my colleagues from some of those communities that are just prone to fighting can take the time and liberty to go and talk to their communities and preach peace! They should be messengers of peace for this nation! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want peace that comes from the heart; not peace that is being done for the sake of publicity; not peace that we have to do because we want to be seen to be good, while the inside is rotten! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the very minimum, I expect the Minister to tell Kenyans, today and now, what permanent solutions he is going to put in place to resolve the issue of cattle rustling. What equipment and personnel are you going to give to the Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) of Turkana South District, Turkana Central District and all the other neighbouring districts August 6, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2373 that are confronted with that problem? That is what we expect! We expect action! We do not expect sympathy! We appreciate that we can have a little sympathy for the victims. But we want action! Action that will serve for now and the near future! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of us are tempted to believe that the place is like a pedal. It is being taken away by different communities. That is why we have those incessant killings in order to discourage our people from grazing in a land that is rightfully ours! If you can remember, I brought the Question about the boundaries and the Government could not commit itself to when it is going to make very clear declarations and demarcations on the boundary between Turkana and Pokot. That is an abdication of responsibility! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the rule of law demands that we get what is rightfully ours and that the law cannot fear or favour. So, why are we shy to be categorical on things that are so obvious? I am not going to entertain--- Because I know the Minister will come and say: \"We want elders\". Elders are not paid by taxpayers to manage peace! We pay civil servants and politicians! They can only play a supportive role. Let the Minister take the bull by the horns. With those few remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move."
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