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    "id": 639556,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 431,
        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I sought the Floor when I heard Sen.Wako talk about how this administrative district is here. Sen. Adan will bear me witness that while at the former Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHRC), sometimes we would go to these areas of conflict about border disputes. A District Commissioner (DC) would tell you: “I pursued the rustlers until this point. I then had to give it over to the other DC to handle and another Officer Commanding Station (OCS) or Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD). I think what is testament here is that over the last 50 years, we have not build a nation. People are still feeling insecure about whether you are administered from Busia or Bungoma County. There are politics in here. I was told by my brother, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., about a billboard which was put up; where somebody was saying that this is the administrative boundary of Makueni. Somebody else came, pulled it down and put it somewhere else. There is a certain malaise in this country which we need to deal with. I am getting a bit concerned that we are becoming sensitive about which border. I have heard, particularly in areas of northern Kenya people killing themselves because one group says our border goes up to there, and this other one says ours goes up to here. So, we must try to minimize conflict. We do not have this type of disputes in Mombasa. Maybe there is almost some correlation with development. If we developed people equally and they felt that the services were accessible in the same way everywhere, we would give people livelihoods. These petitions should sometimes deal with deeper and more fundamental issues than just the matters I have alluded to. I got very surprised as a young Kenyan when I The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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