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    "id": 406590,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to bring to the national attention the situation in Marsabit County. I stand here for all the residents of Marsabit County, as their Senator, with a very heavy heart. This is because while other parts of this country are getting prepared to embrace devolution and make use of this opportunity to improve their condition, my county is sliding back into a situation where people are finding it easier to live in a foreign country than in their own country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the current situation is very bad. If I start with the situation in Moyale, which is the border point, for the last three months, 80 per cent of its residents have not been staying in their homes. People have been living in Kenya during the day and crossing over to sleep in Moyale-Ethiopia. Moyale happens to be a border town and falls both on the Kenyan side and the Ethiopian side. It is very unfortunate that Kenyans are finding it secure to sleep in a foreign country, just because they cannot get security in their own country. Right now, we have reached a point where people do not do business and shops have closed, yet that is mainly a business and border town. Some people cannot even access banks by virtue of where they are located. If it is located close to another community, you cannot even access banks and hospital facilities because of that kind of insecurity. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the whole team of elected leaders in Marsabit County was there in August and the situation was so bad that we had to be escorted out of town because people fight in broad daylight. Right now, it is even worse. The information that we have is that people from all communities are busy arming themselves. It is sad that the Government is just reporting to us that people are arming themselves. I do not know whether they want us to go and disarm them, because it is their responsibility to make sure that the public does not get arms. Theirs is to keep law and order. They are the ones who are supposed to have force to stop people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Marsabit-Moyale Highway is impassable and that is the gateway that we have---"
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