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"content": "benefit from these resources and they can become part and parcel of the exploitation of these resources. Therefore, they will have the confidence to say that since they are getting about 20 per cent of the total earnings or using it to educate their children and change their economic status, they will feel they are co-heirs, co-inheritors, co-beneficiaries with the rest of Kenyan, therefore, they will have the interest to protect those resources. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when these areas have bad roads. They do not have good schools. There is no irrigation or any other economic activity taking place. Therefore, we see insecurity as a culmination of a collection of many other problems that exist in that area. If we have no good road, we will not be able to deploy the necessary police or security team to be able to man those places. I think as a matter of fact, the solution to marginalization of these many areas is in devolution. With regard to that, we must be able to agree in this Bill to transfer some of the security functions. As a matter of fact, Article 187 of the Constitution allows enactment of a legislation that will give the powers of transfer of a function from one level of Government to the other. In the limited ways, we should be able to give some of the security functions to be carried out by the police reservists working together with the county government and create structures for devolving those resources. Finally, I have advice for our leaders. We know that there are challenges in these marginalized areas. However, it is important to realize that our leaders must take a step, sit and work together. I am one of the leaders from north Rift, but I would like to see more. If the residents of Turkana and West Pokot see Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo and Sen. Munyes walking together, talking together, preaching peace together and providing solutions to the problems that are in those regions together, tensions, fights and border differences that we are seeing in Turkana, Isiolo and Samburu will be dealt with. If the leaders have the necessary commitment and work together, these problems will be dealt with immediately. I want to encourage our brothers and sisters in the “Lower House” that they must be able to come together and put peace ahead. They must appreciate that the existence of Laikipia County with Samburu County is intertwined in terms of economic development. But if we continue being myopic and thinking that because you will look like a hero if you are seen to be defending your community, being aggressive against another community, we, as leaders, will be riding on the ignorance of our people. Instead of taking them from Egypt to Canaan, we are telling them that we want to continue leading them in Egypt. We must get our people to cross over. We must even do that at the expense of losing our positions. If they do not understand us so that 20 to 30 years down the line, they will say: “Behold, if we had listened to Murkomen, we would have crossed the River Jordan to Canaan together.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the moment, because of the immediate benefits; that we all want to secure the desire to remain in office, we have glorified war-lordship and violence so that we can ride and step on dead bodies in order to remain there. We, as leaders, must let go of our desire to remain in office at all expense. We must be able to say no to this violence so that we can walk jointly to get the solution. What I have always said is that we need leaders to start coming together at the regional level for the benefit of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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