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    "content": "programmes, the most important thing for us to do is to work out how to leave communities enhanced, working together and able to deal with their challenges more effectively. In fact, while we talk of peace building projects, we should not undermine the existence of the different communities. Some are minorities and others are majority tribes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Bill makes it an offence to undertake a peace building project that is not registered under the Act. Why are we doing so? This is because different departments are running peace programmes throughout the country. Sometimes we go into a region, especially where we have the pastoralists and different clans fighting each other, but they have their own mechanisms of ensuring peace. They have their own mechanisms of punishing offenders, for example, if one went to a community and disrupted or killed. At the same time, some things are really “hot”. I remember the Senate Committee that went to Mandera County. There are pertinent questions we have to ask ourselves. For example, what happened after that visit? What is happening now? Is there peace in that county? We do not even have something to track. We do not have a monitoring mechanism to track the record for us to know what is happening on the ground. For example, we should show that after 10 months, people have worked together, agreed and moved on with their lives. The Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations was worried when we brought the amendment. May I tell them that what we are trying to do here is to give powers to the NCIC to enable them monitor the peace building projects across this country. This will ensure that the projects do not fuel more conflicts. It will ensure that they are only projects that talk of peace. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also have boundary disputes. Those are conflicts that need peace. However, when we have these conflicts the best way is to have the NCIC monitor and assist. The important thing as we amend the Act is to improve what the NCIC has. Let us give them the support to oversight and the support to ensure that if you want to get data of a certain county in terms of projects on peace building, it will only be asking and receiving. Within the joint committee, which I sit in, we have received different reports from counties. There is a lot that is happening in this country. However, we are not able to document what is happening in the various counties. Some are positive while others are negative, but need to be worked on. I hope the NCIC can also take its responsibility critically to deal with those that are negative. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we move toward the general election next year, there will be a lot of conflicts in the counties, especially where minority communites may feel marginalised and denied the chance to contest certain positions. For example, this happened in Marsabit in 2013 general election. Going forward, I think it will be wise for us to give the NCIC an oversight role so that they talk with the elders in various counties to see how best they can manage the 2017 general election and make sure that everybody is involved. We do not want to see situations where a section of the community is denied a chance to participate in elections. These are challenges that we need to address as a country. All political positions should be shared equally by all communities in a county."
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