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    "id": 499367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ekomwa",
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        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. The issue of insecurity is becoming critical in this nation. People have lost lives in every corner of this nation; for example in Garissa, Mombasa, Turkana and Kisumu. The reason why we have a Government in place is to ensure lives and properties of Kenyans are protected. When a civilian holds the security of the nation to ransom, then the security of that nation is at stake; it beats logic and everybody is aware of this. If we lose one security officer who apparently is supposed to secure the security of more than 450 citizens in Kenya, what about if we lose 25 security officers, how many Kenyans will be insecure? It is as if almost all Kenyans are insecure. In Canada, if one police officer is killed, all machinery of the Government like the army is brought out to ensure whoever participated in that act has been brought to book. When our President visited Kapedo and ordinary mwananchi stood before the President and told him that they killed 22 security officers and they were sorry because apparently they did not know that those were security officers, it is unfortunate. The elder did not know he was talking to the President who is the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. Does it mean there are Kenyans who are licensed to kill other Kenyans? Is there a community licensed to kill? I am wondering if those are the people who are expected to live in Kenya. Two weeks ago, three GSU officers and one woman who worked with Tullow were killed and something was done to her private parts by another civilian, even after producing Kshs.60,000. This is the time the Government should take control of the security of this nation. Some of the pastoral communities have been having illegal arms and they have been given enough time to continue killing security officers. It is high time the Government took action. Kenyans are listening and we want those who killed 20 security officers to be arrested. It should not only be about returning guns and uniforms but they should be stopped lest they continue to kill others. The first thing KDF was supposed to do is to arrest the killers. I am a pastoralist and I condemn anybody who shoots at a security officer, be it my brother or my neighbour. We have to respect security officers because they protect civilians. If they can kill security officers, how many civilians will be killed? The reason why we respect the President is because of the security surrounding him and his escort. What will Kenyans say if the President’s security men are killed?"
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