Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 578050,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578050/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 166,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2756,
        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
        "slug": "alois-musa-lentoimaga"
    },
    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this Sessional Paper No. 5 of 2014. It is very important and it has come at a right time. It is very crucial because our country is bleeding in terms of conflict. We have not had enough policies or even laws to address this issue. Where I come from, there is a serious problem on cattle rustling; a conflict that results in livestock cattle rustling. This issue has really affected our people. It has led to serious displacement of people, death, and trauma. In most cases people who are affected are traumatized. If you lose your family members, you lose all your livestock and you are actually left in abject poverty. You are also displaced. This policy will address this issue. It will go a long way to reduce this kind of trauma and displacement. In the past, Government has done very little due to lack of that policy. The Government does not even understand some of these issues that affect our people in the northern Kenya. It is like we have been looked at as if this is just cultural. It is like what we are doing is just part of our culture. This is embedded in the minds of previous Governments and even the current Government. We still think that something has to be done. It will be done through this policy because it says that they will address this issue. The issue is that early warnings systems must be put in place. In most cases, we are too much reactive. We deploy security personnel only when an incident happens, say, when a raid is done or when a conflict occurs. We only deploy at that time and it takes so long for the security forces to arrive. It takes so long. It could take a week, two weeks or sometimes there is no deployment at all. They are not enough even to address that issue on the ground. This policy addresses that issue and says that they will deploy permanent security officers on the ground so that they are able to react as fast as possible when an incident happens. With regard to the issue of community sensitization, there is serious ethnic hatred because of this trauma, displacement, death et cetera . There is serious ethnic hatred. Again, the policy addresses that they will have to sensitize the communities. It will go a long way to reduce that ethnic hatred that has developed over time. So, this policy is important if it addresses those issues. We need to live together as different communities in different counties even though we are from different ethnic groups. Our Constitution provides that we can live anywhere in Kenya so long as we agree on the cultures and how we can work together. So, this policy will go a long way to assist in ensuring that our people live together and reduce conflicts because of ethnic hatred. The other issue that I see this policy addressing is the issue of upholding the rule of law. In many cases, no law has actually been enforced in some of these areas. When people fight, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}