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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I cannot agree more with my sister here. However, it is a sad day when every year, we speak about the problems of Turkana. One time, it is the security situation. Another time, it is famine. This problem in the wider context of the three international boundaries that we occupy, if you extend this problem to the Migingo issue, the Mandera issue--- I expected the hon. Minister Prof. George Saitoti, a man I respect and a very good friend of mine, at least, if not for any other reason, for not his obligations, at least, for my purposes to have gone and visited this place with his able Assistant Minister. But my good friend the hon. Minister says that the provincial security team went to Turkana on 3rd May and the meetings are continuing. Mr. Minister, your provincial security team landed there in a chopper and left the same day. Which meetings are continuing, Mr. Minister? Mr. Minister, as I speak now, the camp you are trying to relocate from where it is to the border point, I made a suggestion in 1999, it was never heeded. The police officers were put behind the manyatta. Is that a camp to protect people or is it a camp for the people to protect the policemen? The other day in this House, the hon. Member Fred Outa was asking a Question about one of your administration police officers, who instead of guarding our people, decided to butcher one of them, coming from Kisumu. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, they are incompetent, inadequate and useless. In this Motion today, I want the Minster to come out of his comfort zone. I know he is able to come and visit with me so that he can see for himself, not relying on biased reports by the provincial security team who think they must always praise the Minister that we are doing everything within our power. Which power do you have? We are asking for the security forces to be deployed at the borders. We are not looking for people who go there to assess the damage as if they are working for the insurance companies. We are asking for the security of this country to be placed where it matters most. We want the military, the GSU, the police the administration police along the border. The colonial government did better than this independent Government. In fact, there are people in my community who think the Mzungu should come back because he made sure there was a police post at Todonyang, Kemosia, Lokiriama and Lorongimi. My good Government has reduced those police posts to a shell of two when they should be 20 men at the very minimum, according to the establishment. As if that is not enough, we have offered to support the Government for free through what we call the Kenya Police Reservists. They came last October, they registered our people, but up to date, not a single person has been recruited. The Minister is busy telling us that they have deployed people. There are only four policemen in Todonyang. There are only four administration police in Todonyang. Two of them usually are away looking for a salary because even the helicopters that used to bring their salaries every month were withdrawn for purposes of doing other things. We are talking about Kenyans. We are talking about the conflict over resources. We are talking about conflict over Lake Turkana. We are talking about conflict of damming of River Omo. We are talking about Kenyans because of lack of food security, they are risking their lives to go to a foreign country whose commodities are cheaper than the"
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