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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to thank hon. Lesirma for bringing this Motion to the House. It is very relevant. It is proper to bring this Motion here now because of the insecurity that is spreading all over northern Kenya and in areas like Laikipia and Samburu Districts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, pastoralists living in arid areas have been discriminated against for the last 100 years by the colonial government and the successive African Governments. They have been discriminated against, marginalised and completely forgotten. If you look at how resources are shared to these areas, you will see that they are marginalised. Look at the budgetary allocation for water resources, lack of which is the cause of problems in all arid areas, for these areas and you will see that they marginalised. In the last financial year some of the districts in this country were allocated Kshs500 million. These were districts that have water and are arable. On the other hand, some districts in the arid areas were allocated Kshs5 million. Just compare this to see how unfair and discriminatory the allocation of resources is. If you look at infrastructure, the story is the same. In these areas there are no roads. It is only cattle and camel tracks that exist, and nothing else. Even the Moyale-Isiolo Road, that would save the lives of a lot of people, is not being taken care of. There are many other roads, which I do not have to mention. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the rate of illiteracy in those areas is very high and so is the poverty index. In these pastoralist areas, over 60 per cent of the people live below poverty line because they have been neglected. For example, we have been told that livestock has been 578 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 19, 2006 stolen in Moyale, and people have been abducted in Marsabit and taken across the border into Ethiopia. We have not been told what has happened to that livestock or to our people who have been abducted. What is the Government doing to protect the lives of our people and their property? It is the responsibility of the Government to protect the lives and property of her citizens. In fact, it is the duty of the Government to protect the lives of the people of this country. We have been told that the Army has not been deployed there because the attack was initiated by the homeguards. Whether they were attacked by homeguards, militia or an organised army, the issue is that our people have been abducted and their livestock has been stolen. What is the Government doing? I hope the Minister of State for Administration and National Security will tell us what has happened with our livestock. Why did the Army or the police not pursue these militia who have visited untold suffering to our people?"
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