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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support the ACP-EU JPA. This is a great idea; that nations from Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific have come together to form a parliamentary assembly to decide and plan for their economic, political and environmental welfare. Although the whole report is very complex, multipurpose and multicultural, I think it is very important to point out that certain aspects of this Report and the ACP-EU JPA are very important for Africa and for East Africa in particular. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have read the Report that we are now debating. Apart from the environment, which I will come back to later, first and foremost, it talks about conflict. We have had our share of conflicts in East Africa. In this country in particular, there are very few areas which have not had conflicts among groups of people, tribes and all these other things. But I have been wondering what has been causing these conflicts. First of all, there is the question of resources, which I think the Government must address properly, because resources are one important issue that can cause conflicts, disagreements and total chaos in any country. If some people have all resources and some are left without any resources, then definitely, you can be sure that there is going to be serious conflict among those people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is also a question of Government ineptitude; the Government being unable to control or sit down and advise their own citizens on what to do. This Government ineptitude can be seen in many things, for example, what we are now seeing in Mt. Elgon. Just the other day, a majority of hon. Members in this Parliament, apart from the Government side, were saying: \"The Government has neglected the people, it is not listening to the voice of the people, it does not go right to the ground to find the cause of the problems\". It is true that some Ministers have not been able to go there, or they have left it carelessly and said: \"It is their own business, they can go on killing themselves\". That is a Government which is unable to control this conflict and advise their own citizens on the right way to take. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not going to talk about the big conflict in Somalia, although we are seriously affected by it. But it is very good to talk about the Tharaka- Imenti conflict, which is already being published in our Media. I thought that the Minister of State for Administration and National Security was going to make a Ministerial Statement today about the Tharaka-Imenti conflict, where two communities are fighting. In fact, they are almost the same communities like it is in Mt. Elgon! They are all Merus, so to speak. What has the Government done? In fact, I was expecting to hear a Statement from the Minister of State for Administration and National Security or his assistant to tell us, as he said and it was published in our print Media, that the Minister was going to make a Statement about the Tharaka-Imenti conflict."
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