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    "content": "all the way to Ewaso Nyiro. We created a conservancy and assigned the youth who had been trained to be protecting it. When those youth were deployed, the police refused to give them guns. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a lot of discrimination because it seems that KPRs are only for pastoralists. It seems that we who are not pastoralists are not entitled to KPRs even when we have spent time to train them. Therefore, we are appealing to the Government to also arm the people we have trained through KWS to guard our conservancy. This will prevent cattle rustlers crossing from Samburu and coming to cause insecurity in Meru. In fact, because the Meru people are not armed, we hear the Samburus say that they have come to the ATM in Meru, because they know there will be no resistance. Therefore, we are asking for fairness and equitable distribution of KPRs countrywide. How can we be guarded by people with rungus in our houses in Nairobi when the robbers are armed to the teeth? I think we should borrow the Ugandan example where some of the registered security companies are given guns by the police. Once the armed robbers know that our guards are armed, the robberies would come down. Every morning the security guards would return the guns to a police station and pick them up when they are going on duty. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a proposal that former servicemen, since they are trained and many of them are not that old, should be deployed to guard people’s homes like we do with the G4S. I do not know why the Government refused to allow those servicemen to form their own private security organization that would be providing services to our people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, what we are talking about in this Motion will solve part of the problem. Time has come for us to address the underlying causes of cattle rustling for which we are looking for the KPRs. A research has been conducted by the University of Nairobi which shows that the chronic food shortages in Turkana, Samburu and all those areas are caused by insecurity. Today, one can be very rich with many cows, donkeys, sheep and other things. However, the following day, cattle rustlers may come and take away everything. Although you and your family have been very hard working, the day after tomorrow, you may start begging for food because of what happened the previous night. When you organize yourself to get the cattle back and when you make people who were rich for two days poor again, you transfer poverty from one village to another under the guise of enrichment through cattle rustling. The issue of resources in the counties is critical towards having a long term solution to this problem. I would like to appeal to the governors in those areas to come up with clear projects for economic development and prosperity. I agree with you that the county governments should be involved in providing part of the security to counties. I was telling Senator No.1, Sen. G.G. Kariuki, that there was a time when there was a Somali Provincial Commissioner (PC) in North Eastern Province appointed by the former President Moi. When the PC was appointed, all the banditry and shifta issues went down. He came from the area and understood the psychology of the people. Immediately some insecurity took place, he used to go to the village that caused the violence and drive away their camels. He used to tell them that unless they said who had caused the violence, he 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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