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    "content": "dens. I am happy that today the national Government has sent 15 police vehicles to West Pokot. I want to applaud the Government for this. However, the police officers do not have houses. We usually have inter-ethnic conflicts that sometimes occur, usually during the time of elections. This leads to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and we are not able to settle them. There is a newer version of IDPs that is emerging nowadays. They are called externally displaced persons. Due to rain, some places give way in the mountains and people get externally displaced by nature. How do we step in so that these people are assured of their security? There are people in Papach Division in West Pokot who were displaced some three years ago and they are still staying in the caves. That is a serious security matter that the Government should have addressed. Madam Temporary Speaker, our perpetual enemy is food shortage. Who does not know that in northern Kenyan, particularly, Turkana County and the neighbouring counties, we have shortage of food every year? What have we done? We have come up with a very brilliant plan called “one million acres put under irrigation.” But instead of taking it where hunger is, we have taken it to the people who do not want it, that is, in Tana River and Kilifi. I still insist that this was a very misplaced idea. We should have shared those acreages in the counties where we have problems. For example, Isiolo County should have been given some portion to do irrigation and so on. Food insecurity is a serious threat to our people. We see photographs of people eating dogs, which is an absurd thing. Madam Temporary Speaker, floods is also a serious national threat to our people. Every year, we hear of floods in Budalangi and other places, and we have not done anything about it."
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