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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. The situation in the country is very sad. Even after we had a very fierce debate here last week and gave our suggestions, as late as today, we have heard that there are people who have been killed in Mpeketoni, Wajir and Mandera. Madam Temporary Speaker, as I said last week, and stand by it, our country needs to have a modernized security system. We need to apply what I would call “the digital” approaches to security management. I still want to insist also that it is not possible for all policemen to guard every house. It is actually a definition of our primitive energy, as a people, that a neighbour can get a panga or gun and shoot his own neighbour. These are people who know each other, like what happened in Baringo, Wajir and Mandera. It is a shame. We can always call the Government to come and protect us, but we also have a responsibility not to kill our neighbour. The stories that we hear from Wajir and Mandera are a demonstration that as much as we blame another person, there is a responsibility that we must bear. I can excuse situations of Al Shabaab or cases where people have been ambushed, but where neighbours, like in Baringo, are fighting and killing one another over very emaciated cattle--- Even when you take these animals to the market, you will not make a lot of money. Unfortunately, we reduce these useless cattle to equal human life and kill women and children. I think that there is some sense that needs to be driven into the heads of people about the value of life. The Bible says very clearly: - “What will it benefit a man if he were to own all those cattle, tracts of land and the world and lose his soul in eternity?” Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, as a country, we have lost our soul and values. In any case, maybe we do not have those values, because security goes with the values that we have. There is value for life and other people, and we have reduced this to historical injustices. You cannot continue blaming historical injustices when it comes to value of life. I am encouraged by the manner in which we speak in this House. If this is how we were addressing rallies and people out there in churches and soberly debating issues like this, there would be no cases of incitement, hate speech and so on. It is important that also, as leaders, we take that responsibility. This is because, again, as I said to my constituents over the weekend, the Bible is clear. Paul wrote and 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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