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    "id": 416236,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": "they do. If you go to my place, things have gone haywire because there is no order. If you go to the county police commandant and get instructions, the other side ignores that. So, there is no system in place and, therefore, some have gone and they are now becoming businessmen or even farmers; instead of protecting peoples’ plots they are now invading and grabbing the same land by use of the gun which is supposed to protect people. Hon. Speaker, some police officers have become charcoal burners and sand harvesters; go to a place called Katikomor and you will see APs on lorries going to harvest sand and burn charcoal. That is the problem we have between the Uganda side and the Kenya side relating to Trans-Nzoia and the Pokot. Who is now helping the common man when the law enforcers are turning against the poor? This is my appeal. Let us think twice. I know we have played a lot of politics in this country; even when the Constitution was being made, we allowed part of it to be contributed by – what do you call these guys who ran from here and there looking for money? That is why we are now in problems. The problem we have between this House and the Senate is because most of the senators were here; in fact, all of them; especially those who are technocrats in law. They were here. But they need it, now they are crying on the other side. I always tell them to keep quiet and let the National Assembly do their part. They were here and they did it; who are they crying to now? Hon. Speaker, it is now the common man, the poor on the ground helping each other. When people talk about the IG’s office, I take it as an office, not an individual. There are ways of removing the person in charge of that office. If the IG is a problem, we can remove him. There is now the issue about the governors, and the question of whoever is not working well might fall on us here. Therefore, we should not look at the individual and behave as if everything is dead--- It is for us to put a system in place. Hon. Speaker, we decided that now there is no security to protect us in our places. People are now arming themselves. What then will happen thereafter? I remember when the issue of"
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