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"speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I was interrupted by time yesterday I had only spoken for one and a half minutes. I hope you will allow me the remaining eight minutes. For the hon. Members who were not here yesterday, my name is Mr. Josephat Nanok, the MP for Turkana South. Yesterday, I said that I support the Presidential Speech and I echoed all that was presented here by the other hon. Members in this House. I do wish, however, to add a few things. This is a very sensitive period in our history and transition which should be handled in a very sensitive manner. I do not want us to lose the letter and the spirit that has brought us together, particularly the National Grand Coalition. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it only took the elections of December 2007, to open up old wounds that had not begun to heal. I come from a constituency that is perennially insecure. I believe, for most parts of Kenya, we have just begun experiencing comprehensive insecurity recently. Sixty per cent of my constituents have lived with insecurity for the last three decades. When we will be looking at insecurity as a result of the post-election violence, let us also consider those chronic insecure areas like Turkana District, West Pokot and possibly North Eastern Province. We need to restore security in those areas. Insecurity has really caused a lot of both human and livestock deaths. A lot of livestock has also been stolen. In the last five years alone, about 70,000 livestock have been stolen. If we were to quantify this into monetary value, we will be talking of almost Kshs800 million. This is destitution to quite a lot of families. I tend to wonder here why this should happen to our people. Sometimes we say that we are unable to fight poverty. However, we do not realise that we seem to be creating poverty all the time instead of reducing it. Right now, we have a contagious disease called \"PPR\" which is affecting livestock. It is affecting the goats. Technical people from the District Veterinary Office recently vaccinated three million goats in the entire Turkana District but the disease has resurged again. There is a danger that if the vaccines are not provided--- We are only talking about a vaccine which costs Kshs20 per shot and the total cost is Kshs60 million. If we do not vaccinate the goats right now, then we may end up losing half of the three million goats. That would represent close to Kshs2 billion. So, which one do we save? Do we utilise the Kshs60 million to buy the vaccines and save the goats to save more than 50,000 families who may become destitute as a result of this or do we let the goats die? Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my constituency, the drought condition is prevailing. We have also been on the receiving end because of the influx of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). I wish March 13, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 137 to say that although there was no violence in Turkana as a result of the post-election violence, we received more than 6,000 internally displaced people from the Central Rift Valley. These people, up to this date, have received very minimal Government assistance. This is mainly because they do not live in the designated IDP camps. As a Member of Parliament for Turkana South, I think I would be the last person to encourage displaced communities to live in IDP camps. They should rather go into the local communities where they can, at least, get their first line assistance. So, in designing the package that would be coming for all the displaced persons as a result of the post- election violence, let us consider all the displaced persons who are everywhere in this country."
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