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    "content": "The Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security happens to come from Baringo. Up north in this country we have grave instances of insecurity. Those circumstances cannot be dealt with through the power of the barrel. The gun cannot stop insecurity. We need to encourage co-existence. This House may have to deal with boundary issues one day. It is my belief that the way we have redrawn the constituencies, especially the county boundaries, is a source of conflict in many parts of our country. It is going to increase as we keep on finding natural resources under the earth. It is something this House, and I hope this Committee, will keep working on. If you go to many parts of this country, resources are going to the counties. There are many counties in the country which consist of one-and-a-half clans. For those counties which consist of one-and-a-half clans, the half will always fight. Even if there was fairness, they would feel oppressed. I want to give you a situation of where I come from, although I do not come from that particular county. The county of Migori is unique; there you have the Kurias, the Luos and the Luhyas living together with the Luos being an overwhelming majority. If you talk to a Kuria, their biggest scare is the moment when the Luos will have all the elective posts. If you talk to Luos, they say that next time there will be no negotiation. We need to deal with it. If the boundaries that we came up with in Bomas of Kenya were the ones this country went with, there would never have been the Lamu killings or all these things in the former North Eastern Province. That is the source of conflict. This House must address itself to these issues. We must deal with the issue of boundary conflict. It is not the animals. It is we who should be put together to live under one law, who are being forced to live apart and to share national resources. The more together we are, the better. I support the Motion."
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