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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will be very brief. This is a very unfortunate situation to have in our country. My heart bleeds for the people of Wajir because they deserve better in this country after 50 years of Independence. In fact, if you look in this House today, some of the brightest minds in this House come from Wajir County. I am giving the example of hon. Elmi and hon. Keynan. You know them. They give great input in this House. I can imagine that those little boys who are suffering now could have been the Elmis and Keynans of another day. For our country not to protect those people and to provide the necessary security for their lives, education and prosperity, I think there is something that is seriously wrong with our civilization. I think we need to do better. As I have said before, when I was talking about Baragoi, Wajir is not somewhere in outer space. You cannot tell me that our security forces are so over-stretched that we can have a month-long violence going on in Wajir and yet, we cannot put enough troops on the ground to ensure that every family in Wajir County is protected. Samburu is a hotspot area in terms of security. At times, we have different fires to put out. However, as I talk today, it seems like things have calmed a little bit in Samburu and some parts of the country. Our security personnel should be deployed to Wajir today to make sure that the people of Wajir are safe. I do not think we have any excuse. It is very unfortunate. I would like to refer to the second amendment of the USA Constitution; the right to bear arms. This is a very important amendment. The essence of this was to have a regulated militia. If the Government has failed – and I am proud of this Government – so that we have killings in Wajir for a week or so, then as a House and a country, we need to put our minds together. We need to think of having something like the second amendment of the USA Constitution. As human beings, we all have a natural right at birth. However, within that natural right, there is an auxiliary right that comes because of self-defence. If the Government cannot protect us, then we need to go the way of bearing arms or having regulated militias within our counties to protect our people. Finally, I want us to think of Wajir and any other place that gets into this problem in a very bipartisan way. I do not want us to try and get political capital out of this. Let us refrain because people are dying. I do not want this to look like it is a CORD issue. It should not be that since I am in Government, I should not blame the Inspector-General or the security apparatus in our country. In such issues, I honestly call for a bipartisan approach to the failures and successes of the Government. This is an issue about which I will advocate for a national dialogue, instead of talking about the price of mkate and so on. We can accommodate those ones for a day, but we cannot afford to see the Elmis and Keynans of tomorrow being killed. I truly think this is the time to form a national dialogue. We can initiate it from this House as we move forward to make sure that the kind of things happening in Wajir, Baragoi, and Tana River The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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