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    "id": 520432,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Haji",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 26,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, no reservist is forced to be a reservist; it is a voluntary service. It is the person who is armed who volunteers to do the service for the community in which he lives in. Therefore, my colleague should not try to confuse me by wanting me to change my position because I cannot change it. It is a fact that home guards and reservists are people who volunteer and they do this without any payment. By extension, they are not employees of the Government and, therefore, there is no provision for them to be compensated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the question raised by Sen. Hargura as well as Sen. Leshore on the border dispute; the question of border disputes is raging all over the country. I know that there are disputes in many counties and they have become even more prevalent. Now that we have counties, border disputes which have not been there before are now cropping up. It is really incumbent upon the Government to make sure that something is done about this. I went round about two weeks ago to various parts of this country and the problem being raised in the House is also being raised by members of the community. My Committee will be meeting tomorrow with the entire security officials, including the Cabinet Secretary (CS) and some of the issues that we want to raise are about cattle rustling, border disputes and the number of reservists who are armed in various places and areas where reservists are not armed. So, I do not wish to pre-empt the questions that we are going to put to them. I hope that Sen. Wetangula will be there to help in formulating the questions that we are going to ask. Mr. Speaker, Sir, another issue that was raised was about the compensation for people who are killed. In Kenya, people are being killed every day; even the other day, a man killed his wife and his daughter; is he going to be compensated? Let us ask the Government reasonable questions. There is no question of compensating every deceased person; it is not possible. I think I have answered the questions---"
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