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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "It makes me wonder whether there are some special people in this country. I know there are elections, the Government needs votes and maybe that is why it does not want to discuss that issue. Again, we cannot rule by rigging votes when innocent Kenyans, the 50 plus officers, have been killed. That is not enough. The HK16 and the other guns are looking at very innocent children, women and the innocent lives of the Samburu and the Pokot tribes. We know where those people go. I am sorry to say this and I am not a tribalist, but we know who those guns are facing. They are facing the Samburus and the Pokots. Can we just sit as a Government and see those people get killed again? I want to end by asking a few questions to our Government; what happened to the operation that was authorised by the Government of President Kibaki? What happened to the Government operation? When will it be implemented, at least, to recover the guns? Forget about our great men who died, who came from across our Republic, but when will the Government, at least, get those guns? What should we tell those families? Should we tell them that the Government is very weak and a bunch of criminals can kill their relatives and breadwinners and six months down the line the Government cannot even recover the firearms from those people? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another question that is important to this debate is, what precedent are we setting as a country? What are we telling our tribes? What are we telling the tribes that are armed with illegal firearms? Are we telling them that they can kill anybody in the Government and take away their firearms so that they can kill more? Is that the precedent we want to set as a country that I love very much; that an officer who works for the Government can be killed and the firearms taken and nothing happens? Is that what the Government wants to do? If these people are Kenyans and they are somewhere in Kenya, have we lost control of our territories? Are we saying that we cannot rule our country? The United States of America is almost 50 times bigger than this country but you cannot do anything bad in the USA. The Government will catch up with you if you commit a crime even in the deserts of Mexico or wherever. This is the case and yet here, we have a very small country and we keep on talking about the Suguta Valley as if it is sending robots to the Mars. This valley is within our territories and it is not even big. The Government has the machinery such as planes--- Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion. Thank you."
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