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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, our people have not enjoyed the gift of animals that God gave us. They always live in fear. They do not know when their animals will be stolen. I am also thinking of a place called Apuke. Last week, we had problems between West Pokot and Turkana. Cattle rustling is rampant in Nariwomoru. We have about 20 areas with security issues. We can use the KPRs on the ground and, probably, recruit more people who live in the area and understand the terrain of that region. You have heard of KenGen Turkwel Plant which has had problems because of insecurity. The people who ended up securing those areas are the KPRs, but they are only three. This poses a serious security risk to our people, especially in Kainuk where KPRs use obsolete weapons. We need to arm them with sophisticated weapons. Why give them very old guns? I am told that when they release a bullet, they wait for several minutes before another one is loaded. Madam Temporary Speaker, yesterday, we were talking with Sen. G.G. Kariuki about the problem in Laikipia, West Pokot, Baringo and Samburu counties. Even in Nairobi here, we have some areas that need to be manned, especially at night. However, our officers are not enough to patrol all our streets at night. We can have a formalized system. We should not fear that if we give them arms, then we may end up suffering. I do not buy the notion that people might misuse guns because even the current officers also misuse them. If this will enable us get peace, why not try it? Yesterday I moved around the city at night and I saw a number of officers stationed to man a street light in controlling vehicles. They were doing the same job as the traffic lights. Why should we have our police officers manning traffic lights when we have very few in our counties? For example, we have less than 80 police officers in my county. This means that since those people are suffering, let us do what can make them better by engaging KPRs and arming them with machine guns and other equipment. Madam Temporary Speaker, five years ago, I, together with the District Commissioner (DC) and the Officer Commanding Police Department (OCPD) of West Pokot, brought together all the 62 KPRs along the Kenya/Uganda border near a place called Kanyarkwat, near Kolongolo where Sen. Ndiema comes from. We bought them shoes. They committed their lives to service. Nowadays you do not hear of incidents of people stealing chicken and bicycles. This habit was stopped because of that action. The thieves would wait for people carrying chicken and bicycles from the market and take them. They should also be given uniforms---"
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