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"speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
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"content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to argue with my colleague, the Assistant Minister. But I do not think I was really out of order. That is because we are saying the same thing. He is saying what I am saying. I have said that the flash points that make the whole region insecure are in my constituency. I want to thank him and his Ministry for, at least, taking some positive measures to deal, once and for all, with insecurity in that area. I want to thank the Commissioner of Police for accepting to put up a police station at Ruangila and a police post at Kambela, which are the main flash points. But I will still ask my colleague to consider putting up another police post at Chundiiri, which is another flash point around that area. If those ones are put up, they will be useful in handling insecurity in that region. The other proposal that has come from the people down there is to have a big GSU camp in that region. There is no GSU camp in my constituency or Isiolo. Whenever there is a serious conflict, police have to be transported from elsewhere to come and deal with insecurity there. The RDU are either transported from Embu or from other stations in Nairobi where the GSU camps are stationed. By the time they reach there – which is more than 350 kilometers from Nairobi or 150 kilometers from Embu - people have been killed and property has been destroyed. The damage has already been done. So, they only come to deal with the aftermath of the conflict. We are saying that you should put the police where they are needed. Put GSU camps in Isiolo or within the vicinity of Isiolo Town so that when a problem arises, somebody is there to deal with it. Transporting them from far is costly, never timely and never helps. I believe that this is a matter that is already being considered because the Minister is also here. The other issue that affects my constituency, surrounding areas and Isiolo is herdsmen coming from far away, Upper Eastern and North Eastern with their thousands of camels. They traverse all that area to come and graze them around Isiolo. Again, most of the grazing area is in my constituency."
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