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    "id": 604939,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/604939/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in saying that this House is the only hope that Kenyans have, especially where we have disputes. I recall a dispute on the West Pokot-Turkana boundary border where criminals have been operating and laying claim to the extent that they end up taking people’s cattle until a new terminology was born called “cattle rustling”. Now other Kenyans are assigning cattle rustling to belong to the Pokots and the Turkana. Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the last three weeks, we have had very good peace in the two counties of Pokot and Turkana. This is majorly because of the leaders from that region led by the two Senators, the Governors and so on, worked round the clock to make sure that we have relative peace. Today people are moving around and visiting one another. These are people I have never met for the last 20 years. These boundaries which people want to assign and demarcate for the sake of knowing who should live where and particularly with the arrival of minerals in Turkana and Pokot regions, and the arrival of the railway in Makueni and Kajiado, people on the ground can easily be misled to think you benefit more when you are closer to the resource. It is time the Senate the national Government worked closely to bring peace and order as attempts are being made by a committee recognized in Article 188 to sort out these issues. Over 22 counties seem to have disputes which will not create another country even we solved or did not solve them. It is time we told Kenyans who are listening to us not to take law into their hands, but instead allow leaders and the national Government to take their role."
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