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    "id": 363384,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for this chance. I also rise to condole with the people of Turkana for this unfortunate event that arose in their county. We are worried, as a nation, because of the runaway security in our country. The insecurity prone areas are always the ones near the borders. In the north eastern part of this country, every other time we hear about incidences of insecurity which in a microscopic manner you may think it is a cultural issue of cattle rustling. To me, it appears as if this has taken an economic angle where people steal from others because it is an economic activity, they go and sell those animals and that is why it can never come to an end. As my colleague, hon. Abongotum put it, it is time that we set up laws that are specific to those areas so that we do not treat is as if it is a normal incidence of insecurity. It is so perennial and continuous to an extent that it is time we set up a whole unit that deals with the northern part and deals with issues of insecurity especially for the people who are nomadic; people who rear livestock. They are always pulled behind because you can imagine that one morning you have a cattle yard full of animals and the next morning they strike and you become a pauper for good. These pastoralists and the people who rear cattle, once the animals are stolen, we have never seen any time they have been compensated just like when your car is stolen and you have an insurance cover, you are compensated. These are livelihoods of our people and I have never seen the Government compensating especially where life is lost. We never hear of any compensation. They suffer to that extent and they always wonder whether they are Kenyans or not. I think it is high time that we isolate this aspect of cattle rustling or people being murdered; large populations being sent away from their land and they become IDPs for no apparent reason. I suggest that a commission be set up to investigate and involve the locals so that we stop this runaway insecurity. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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