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    "content": "them. What we should be doing, as leaders, is to caution those who have the title deeds against selling their parcels of land. They should keep them and use them to build their economies. That is one thing that the Senate needs to protect if we are, indeed, there to protect. That is where the issue of reservists comes in. Those days, we used the home guards that were available. Today, we have fought the structure of the chiefs. I remember that when we were redoing the Constitution, women came out crying that the chief is the only person whom they can run to when their husbands battle them or when their neighbours decide – this is common in our place in western – to dig their shambas . The only place you can run to is to the chief. We need to ask ourselves, if the structures worked at that time, how will we help county governments to restructure a better way to identify those that they know in their communities to take care of them? We used to have a policy, during those days of recruitments, where a percentage of the recruits would come from each area. A percentage of these recruits would be sent to their home areas because they knew their areas very well. We need to ask ourselves whether we need to go back to that policy. If we are not careful, very soon, even those of us who think we are so protected, the youth will come for us. Recently, in Siaya, we saw young people walking towards a home of one of the residents at 10.00 p.m. They burnt the home, a young man, his vehicle and nobody has ever talked about it to know what the issue was and why they had such a heart while others were pleading with them. It was not common in the African culture to see people being killed when they have already pleaded not to be killed. We need to ask ourselves what is wrong with the society today. What is wrong with us? Have we completely become like the Western world where you do not care about your neighbour? That was not part of the African culture. We cared very much; we cared about a neighbour’s child and felt bad when they could not go to school while our children went. However, today, when I have the resources, I just look at my neighbours and do not care for them. However, tomorrow, they come to steal my cows, chicken and everything else. I beg to support."
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