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    "id": 472398,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/472398/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 93,
        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious matter but I do not think that the resignation of one person called ole Lenku is going to stop the killings in Pokot and Turkana because the problem is much deeper than that. I think we need to address the whole issue. If you look at the way we have established the military bases in this country; we have a barrack in Kahawa, Lang’ata, Gilgil, Nanyuki and Eldoret. These were established by the colonialists because wherever the “White” men were, that is where the military barracks were established. Time has come for security to be devolved so that we have a military barrack established in Turkana. Time has come for us to establish military barracks in northern Kenya and north eastern Kenya so that we decolonize the security system of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, although we have left security to be a function of the national Government, I think it is time for us to share this responsibility with the county governments as well. It is time for us to provide some local armed security to protect the Turkana people and to protect the people in Marsabit in some arrangement in connection with the national Government. I think if we just leave it to float at the national Government level, it is not sufficient. I think we need more practical solutions than merely saying, sack so-and-so."
}