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    "id": 406603,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity. I want to thank Sen. Hargura for bringing this Motion for Adjournment, so that we discuss the insecurity situation in Marsabit County. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, looking at the information that has been presented, it almost boils down to a case where some defeated politicians and those who won have not sat down and agreed on how to solve these problems. Whenever there are problems they should not run to their communities and start issuing statements that can cause alarm. From the information that has been given here, Marsabit County is on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia. It is a vast county covering a distance of 500 kilometres in length. Indeed, when we hear that Kenyans find refuge in a neighbouring country, it really tells a lot. Our security system here in Kenya needs to be relooked. We need to deploy more of our Defence Forces along our border with other countries. I am not sure whether we have enough of them to patrol our borders. It is really a pity for Kenyans to migrate to neighbouring countries. This is really a serious thing. Why would our people migrate to a neighbouring country? The Ministry responsible for maintaining peace and order should have summoned leaders to find a lasting solution to this problem. Whenever a problem erupts we leave it to the communities to handle it themselves. We leave everything to chiefs, district officers and district commissioners to handle the situation. These are techniques that we have always used. I was expecting that during this digital era, the person in charge of security will easily go to that area, sit down with the relevant leaders to know what is happening on the ground. A number of reports normally are given directly from the ground to the national office, but no action is taken. The problem that has been highlighted in the last one week in this country pitting the Pokot and the Turkana communities against each other is as a result of scarcity of resources. I think the real cause is very simple. When policemen are told that somebody has killed someone and they take days and weeks to act, what happens to the people who lost their own? The citizens will react. For example, if a car knocks down somebody, you will see some commotion, where people will react and run towards the car. The vehicle owner can easily be lynched. So, sometimes some things happen when we do not act very fast. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the situation that you saw and heard about is in a small village called Lorokon in West Pokot. Bandits used to kill people in manyattas in Pokot indiscriminately. They would report every other day that killers had gone to the small village and nobody listened to them. When human beings reach a point where they take the law into their The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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