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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Korere",
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        "legal_name": "Sara Paulata Korere",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to add my voice to the issue of insecurity. It is very sad when Kenyans die and butcher each other as we watch helplessly. Our military and Defence Forces sit in the barracks, go to the messes, take wine and slash grass as if there is nothing else useful they can do in this country. I want to urge my fellow leaders, Members of Parliament, Senators and Governors, that the politics of yester years, where leaders incite people to fight, thumb their chests and hink that they are more men than others because their clansmen have butchered many people, are gone. It is pathetic and primitive. We cannot understand this in this era. I talk with a lot of bitterness because if you look at me standing me, I am a very harmless woman. I cannot even harm a fly, but just two weeks ago, a leader from my county paraded me in a meeting of leaders and said that “this is the woman who tells the Government that the warriors have guns and bullets”. The fact that I am nominated by the Jubilee Government does not make me any important in the Jubilee. I want to say to this House that my life is in danger. We take some of these things for granted. If I am gunned down when we go for the December holidays, you will just mourn. My good friend, hon. Kiruku will cry for two days and keep quiet and go back home. The animosity we are witnessing around, even if we deploy all the military forces to our villages, is immense. Peace must start with us as individuals. I urge the leaders from the warring communities, especially the pastoralists communities where I come from, that time is up. We spend a lot of resources on this. It is a shame. Our girls are not going to school because every time our leaders stand here, they talk about security. What security? I want to tell these people that our girls need to go to school. We need to have women lawyers from the pastoralist communities. We need to fight the female genital mutilation and early marriages. This security issue is a creation of leaders, and I must say that."
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