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    "content": "in the region, namely, Isiolo, Marsabit, Samburu, Turkana, Pokot, Baringo, Kuria and some parts of Meru, because this is where you have issues of cattle rustling and come up with solutions that we feel that the Government should implement. It is always top down. We need solutions from the locals themselves. If they tell us that the Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) could be the most effective in dealing with this, then we think of giving them stipends and training them to supplement what our security people are supposed to be doing. A good percentage of the security issues are being addressed through the KPRs. I want to thank the KPRs for what they are doing in Turkana and Pokot. In parts of Baringo County, for example, in Tiaty where I come from we do not have KPRs and that is why we have so many issues there. The KPRs are also doing well in Marsabit, Isiolo and Samburu. So, we need to find ways and means of empowering them. We need to empower the RDUs in the Administration Police together with the General Service Unit (GSU). When we are told that the GSUs are stationed at Kibish and Todonyang and people are being killed and no action is being taken, where will these Turkanas go? Let us also explore ways of deploying our military officers. When you go to Uganda, from Bukwa, south of the Karamoja Region, all the way through Dodoth, all the way to Jie County, all the way to Kaabong and all the way to Olopoi, we have military officers stationed after every 30 kilometres. From Mount Elgon all the way to our boundary with South Sudan, we have military officers. Why can we not think of having the same officers from Kacheliba all the way to Lokichoggio and then all the way to Todonyang close to Lake Turkana? Let us think outside the box so that we can save our people. This area can be contentious because of the oil and geothermal issues. That will come later. We want to restore peace in this area first, so that we can exploit oil in Ngamia I, Ngamia II and zebra whatever. We also think that there is oil in Baringo and they can call it Kifaru, Hippo II or Hippo III, so that the moment that we start exploiting these resources, we have peace and we do not experience issues of emancipation of the people of the Niger Delta. We do not want the problem that we have in the Gulf of Guinea to be transferred to the North Rift. We are serious in addressing this issue as a Committee. I want to promise this House that it is not going to be business as usual. It is going to be business unusual. We are prepared to deal with this problem as long as the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Interior and National Co-ordination is prepared to work and deliver on the mandate of his Ministry. With those remarks, I support."
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