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    "content": "(Mr. ole Metito): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to start with Mr. Duale. I want to confirm that it is true that there is the Provincial Security Committee and the District Security Committee. There are also intelligence organs in Garissa. They were not involved in what happened yesterday in Garissa because they were not consulted. I also want to tie what Mr. Cheruiyot and Mr. Midiwo have said about the raid. I want to say that it was sanctioned by the Provincial Security and Intelligence Committee and the District Security Intelligence Committee for Samburu North. The operation was sanctioned by those committees but what they had in mind was that they were going to recover livestock and not fight. They were not going to fight anybody. In fact, the strategy was that they go early in the morning before livestock is taken for grazing and get them in the manyatta . They were not going to kill or fight anybody. Mr. Konchellah asked about retired officers and I want to say that I do not have any evidence linking our retired security officers, be they from the military or the police. I do not have any evidence linking them to this raid. The most substantive issue is what Mr. Ethuro had asked. First of all, I want to confirm that this is not a report that is supposed to come to this House as earlier asked but I want to agree with him that there should be fairness to all communities. That is very paramount. I fully and totally agree with him that there should be fairness to all these pastoral communities involved in cattle rustling. Surely, two wrongs should not make a right. The issue is so big and it is not only about Baragoi. If we have to get solution to this problem of cattle rustling, we have to go wider and involve all the counties where cattle rustling exists. A lot of literature has been written over this; that it is being done for political or economic reasons and so on. The most important thing is to involve all the counties starting from Isiolo County, Samburu County, Baringo County, West Pokot and Turkana counties. There is need to totally disarm these communities and also do development for them. For example, in Suguta Valley, there should be a lot of development. Even roads are not there. This is historical. There have been a lot of disarmament activities done before but they have not been very effective. The reason is that these cattle rustling activities go across the border to Ethiopia and Sudan. When you want to disarm then you must disarm from all sides and do it simultaneously. In this particular time, I will seek the concurrence of all the leadership of those areas. Let us do this thing and agree to have them done at the same time. It may have been bitter this time because actually losing 40 security officers is not an emergency but a disaster for this country. This country had never lost such a big number before."
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