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    "content": "One of them is scrambling for pasture and land amongst people who have lived together for a very long time. So, you ask yourself, why are they fighting? These are issues where people could have sat, talked and we, as leaders helped them to resolve the issues. I look at it as a case where maybe, as leaders, we have not helped these people in the right way that we should. This is because sometimes when these issues occur and we go to see them, what do we tell them? Do we encourage them to go on or sit down and solve the issues? Apart from having peace committees as a must factor, leaders from these two counties should also be in the peace committees. As leaders, we should also make it a tendency to keep on talking to these people to find better measures of resolving their issues and living together. That way, we will avoid clashes where people lose their lives and property. They then come to you and you wonder how you will solve their problems. You can only try your best but you cannot bring back the lives that have been lost and the property that has been destroyed. This is property that somebody has taken a lot of time to accumulate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also agree with the fact that we need to indulge the Government, ask them to compensate these people and find a better way of supporting them. We should compensate them on the property they have lost and find a way of promoting peace in these areas, not just at the time of the occurrences but as a constant practice. The other time it was Kericho and Nyakach and now it is Nandi and Muhoroni. When are we going to have these again? We know very well that these are areas that are prone to these issues. So, we need to make it a practice to preach peace to them and find different methods of conflict resolution. That way, we will not sit and cry over lost lives, destroyed property and words spoken during the clashes. As I sit, I also send my deepest condolences to people who have lost their loved ones and property. We hope that after moving this Motion, there will be speedy action in trying to compensate the people who have lost their property."
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