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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is actually important to have those hon. Members in the House. I think they are aware. Some of them even supported me while I was moving notice of the Motion. So, the critical issue is that in the counties at the moment, there is nobody in charge of security. The command system has collapsed. You have two commanders in the county and it cascades down to the constituency. Two commanders; one in charge of Administration Police and another one in charge of regular police. When we go to ask for interventions, they compete. Everybody says he is independent. They cannot deploy officers to act and that is the reason the security systems have collapsed and the reason why we can see that it is not working well. Secondly, in the recent past, even the County Commissioner who is supposed to be the chairman of the county security committee is also not so much in charge. It is like these two departments in the police force are unable to agree, therefore, they cannot actually assist the county security systems. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, cattle rustling in northern Kenyan has really increased. In the recent past, it has even heightened because of the conflicts between our security agencies. I want to bring it to the attention of the House that I have several incidences which have taken place especially in Samburu County and specifically in Samburu North which have not been responded to at all. Children have been killed especially school-going children. No arrests have been made and nobody follows even the livestock which have been stolen. It is just left like that. So, there are so many outstanding cases that we do not know where to run to get assistance. I want to enumerate them so that I can give hon. Members an opportunity to ventilate. I want to say that in the last two months, for instance, on 24th August, 2013, five armed men invaded a Manyatta in Baragoi Town, just next to the District Commissioner’s office and they killed and harmed an innocent young person called Lelsit. 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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