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    "id": 464116,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2762,
        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
        "slug": "jonathan-lelelit-lati"
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    "content": "Baragoi Massacre is a very sad thing for our country. We all know what happened on that fateful day. Very noble people, from across our great Republic, went after bandits; tribal criminals, who had stolen livestock to try and recover it. What happened is very sad. They were ambushed and 50 plus of our great men, in the service of our country, were killed. Not only did these people kill these great men, who were family members, brothers and relatives to many of us, but they also took their firearms. They took tonnes of assortment of arms and ammunition. Today, those firearms and ammunitions are looking at very innocent Kenyans. We know what firearms are. They are not pillows or roses, but bullets from the Government. These are guns that were bought for Government officers now in the hands of tribal criminals trying to kill more people in our own land. They already killed 50 plus police officers who were serving our country. These were not just policemen, but people who represented families. They were husbands, relatives and brothers to many. I do not think it has ever happened in the history of our country that somebody kills 50 plus officers, takes away their arms and to date, nothing has been done about it. We know what happened the following day during the recovery.Very sad stories have been told by people who went there the following day. After the 50 plus officers were killed, there was no Government response, not even a plane was sent to that place. We know who rescued the few policemen that were rescued. They were rescued by simple herdsmen from the Samburu Tribe. In fact, there is a true story of a senior Administration Police Officer from Ukambani who had a cellphone. He had a very small injury and spent three days calling every day to the police station to be rescued and nobody dared to go and rescue him. The great Government of our country never dared to rescue an officer who went there in the service of our nation. That man is dead today. We have widows and children. We have people somewhere in Ukambani asking what happened to their husband and son. We have heroes of that day. We have a small boy who literally carried an OCPD, who could not walk. The small boy carried an OCPD weighing several times his weight and took him away. That boy has not been mentioned in the books of our history. We have people who used their cars and took the risk to collect the officers. Some of these officers are alive today because of such Kenyans. There is a guy somewhere in Kalenjin land who is alive today because a few Samburu men, namely, Tom Lekesike, Laisi Latura, Tom Lelemore and Leshole took the risk and took that guy to hospital when the Government could not. It is sad because many months after the Baragoi Massacre, the arms are still in the hands of criminals. The Government has gone down so much. It went on asking the criminals to forget about the people they killed, how noble they were, how good they were to our country and what service they were offering to our nation. It asked them to forget that they are killers and just give the Government the firearms. The Government said: “Just give us the firearms”. The criminals said: “You did not give us the guns. We took them by force. If you are truly a Government worth its salt, come and pick the guns”. I want the Government to hear me loudly saying that today, the criminals have won. They have the ammunitions, they have killed and I am not sure where else in the world human beings could get such amnesty. Someone is telling you to forget about the noble officers that you killed and just give the firearms and the criminals say no. 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."
}