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    "content": "had the first graduates from that area. But until seven years ago, that is when we went and moved children - I was personally involved – to bring them to Turkwel Gorge Primary School which has now been fully deserted when KENGEN last year, amazingly uprooted their staff from that place claiming that there was insecurity in Turkwel and relocated to Sondu Miriu and Kitale. This has added another dimension to it. How can a Government run from their plant in the name of a few cattle rustlers from the Pokot and Turkana communities? To me, we are either hiding something or it is a deliberate attempt to frustrate Kenyans who are living around that place. There are no proper schools in that area and no meaningful employment. The people expected to be employed in that plant. Sometimes when people are employed, people from that area never get to know. The job vacancies are advertised in the newspapers. We just see new people on the site who are not from that area. Mr. Temporary Speaker, there has been serious hunger in that area for a long time. They no longer plant maize. The coal deposits that were found in that area are gone. There was a lot of trade going on. The co-operative that they used to have at Ortum Centre collapsed the moment the water covered the dam. This dam was created because the source of gold used to come from River Swam or Turkwel. I expect quick action to be taken to save the situation by compensating those people and giving them appropriate land. We should also create a road around the entire dam. We should buy motor boats which the people can be trained to use. The dam is there to stay and we cannot do away with it. We have to adapt and live with the dam. Since fish is the in thing now, I have not heard of the Government opening their unit there, so that the people can be trained on how they can benefit from the presence of this fish. There are a lot of crocodiles in that area. Is there a market for crocodiles?"
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