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    "id": 649591,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/649591/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ekomwa",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2940,
        "legal_name": "James Lomenen Ekomwa",
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    "content": "We request the Government to take affirmative action and affirm that it is responsible. You know very well that the prime role of any government in this nation or in the whole world is to ensure that it protects the lives and properties of the citizens. The reason citizens vote for any government is that they give it their rights to protect them. When it fails to protect them, people go back to the state of nature. That is exactly what happened in the communities that indulge themselves in cattle rustling. They go back to the state of nature because there is no security and have been marginalised for so long. Because of that they try to survive by killing and taking by force. That is what we call a raid. You come, kill then take livestock then you displace. There is a question we are asking and that is why we have this Motion. The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of post- election violence were considered because of the interest of leaders, whereby people reacted by the assumption that power was taken, and people were killed for two or three weeks. Thereafter, the Government sat and said that it must say sorry to those people and that it must show responsiveness. Those were Kenyans but here comes a scenario where people are killed, displaced and their livestock taken just because they have been marginalised for 50 years. They have nothing to eat just because they have been neglected, as it happened during the post- election violence. That is why we are saying that if the Government affirms that it is responsible, it must also compensate and take care of the IDPs due to cattle rustling. It was not their fault to 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."
}