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"speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our lack of policy focus and neglect of the burning issues relating to Lake Turkana may have contributed to the problem we have seen in Todonyangâ. You may notice that the waters of Lake Turkana have continuously been receding backwards. You have the Merille who believe that they always live in the delta area. The delta area used to be at the border of our country with Ethiopia. It has, however, moved inwards. Therefore, they have moved with the delta, thereby increasing insecurity. On top of this, our own colleagues in the Government have gone ahead to sanction purchase of electricity that is going to be produced from River Omo that feeds into Lake Turkana. This is an issue communities around Lake Turkana have raised so critically. It is unfortunate that the Government in which I serve has not been able to deal with this issue in the right way. This is a matter it should look into. That also includes this House; I am not blaming the Executive alone. This House also has not taken up the matter of Lake Turkana aggressively, knowing that it is the lifeline of more than 500,000 Kenyans, and they are affected. I hope that the Minister is listening as he is sitting here. Let me repeat that we do not have two categories of Kenyan citizenry. We have one Kenyan citizenry; whether Turkana, Kikuyu, Luo or Kalenjin, they are all Kenya citizens. We do not have Turkana in any other country apart from Kenya. We would want to be provided with security. When there is one death in Nairobi, the number of security personnel that are sent out to look into that one death is always more than 100. There are a couple of things that the Government should be able to look into. Two years ago---"
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