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    "id": 534975,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Rotino",
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        "legal_name": "Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting the President. For the first time, of all the Presidents that have been in this country, he gave a wonderful Speech. He was bold enough to tackle issues that pertain to this country. Apart from touching on corruption and other things, the very sensitive area that the President never dwelt on very much is insecurity. When there is insecurity in a country or a region, development is bad. I want the President to tackle insecurity as a priority in this Government. Many of us who come from cattle rustling prone areas suffer so much. We have been called names, things have happened and many people die every now and then and yet, reaction from the police is not there. Policemen are completely unable to tackle cattle rustling and, therefore, a special force should be formed. I thought the new Cabinet Secretary, hon. Nkaissery, was going to do something about insecurity. However, it seems he is not able to tackle insecurity because he is casually handling it. That is because many people are dying every now and then. Many people are dying in Pokot, Turkana and Samburu, and people in the security docket are taking it casually. For how long are we going to die? The priority of any Government worth its salt is to protect its own people. If I and my people are not feeling protected in this country, what are we going to do? Therefore, I want the President to tackle insecurity very seriously. I want to thank the President for providing us with electricity. Many of the schools in my constituency, for example, have already got electricity or solar panels. I thank the President for that move. However, in West Pokot, we have frequent electricity blackouts. I do not understand the reasons behind it and yet Trans Nzoia, who are our neighbours, does not have such blackouts. There is no day which passes without experiencing a power blackout. We have lost computers and many other important equipment because of electricity fluctuation all the time. I plead with those concerned to stop the blackouts in West Pokot. I think it is deliberate or something sinister because we produce 106 Megawatts of electricity through Turkwel and yet, we have blackouts all the time. Were they giving us power to test whether we know how to use it or not? I plead with those concerned to ensure that there is constant flow of power. I want to talk about corruption. All human beings have failed. As the Bible says, all of us have fallen short of the Glory of God. All of us are corrupt but the level of corruption depends. All of us, including the President, should tackle corruption. We must see senior people put in jail. Let us not talk about corruption every now and then. Even the countries that we praise deal with corruption. However, people must be jailed because if they are not, we are going to do nothing other than talking only."
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