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    "id": 356486,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nanok",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Epuyo Nanok",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for the chance to move the Motion for Adjournment of the House to discuss a matter of national importance, pursuant to the Standing Order No.33(1). I seek the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing the general state of insecurity in Turkana West Constituency. This is because of the number of people who have so far been killed in the constituency by warriors from our neighbouring country, South Sudan, who have settled on Kenyan territory. Just to give a bit of a background of this, in mid April this year, there was a Toposa manyatta that crossed the Kenyan border from South Sudan and settled in Kenya, specifically at a place called Lokaruon Sub-Location of Lokichoggio Location in Turkana West. This information was known to the local administrators, because it was passed on to them, but the challenge has always been that the local administers do not seem to believe when they are told of insecurity. It has become the order of the day. When I talk about insecurity, this is not new in this House. Last week, we discussed about the insecurity that had occurred in Bungoma. In October, 2011 the Kenya Defence Forces crossed into Somalia because of the insecurity that was being caused by the Al Shaabab from Somalia. That threat is not as much as it was before that undertaking by the KDF. In the current situation affects people living in Turkana County in general; massacres have occurred which are perpetrated by warriors or raiders or persons who are come into Kenya to execute killings in the name of cattle rustling. In actual sense, this is insecurity to the people of Turkana and their property. We have just discussed a Motion here on the livestock industry. In Turkana County, you cannot distinguish insecurity and livestock farming because livestock is the mainstay of the economy of this county. Insecurity follows wherever livestock goes. People fight over resources in these areas. On 26th April, 2013, a man and his wife, the man going to burn charcoal and the wife going to do small farming on her farm, because it is now raining in Turkana West and people are growing sorghum, were shot dead by warriors from a manyatta that has settled on the Kenyan territory. Three days later on 29th April, two other men were again shot while they were cultivating. Last Sunday on 5th May, a woman who was going to burn charcoal for her livelihood was shot at and badly injured. As I speak, she at the Lodwar County Hospital; I can bet that the medical bill that will accumulate from her treatment, definitely, this woman will not manage to pay it."
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