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    "id": 700440,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Not really. It is the common ones like the driving licence, the NHIF card and NSSF cards. For financial cards, that may be a bit separate. This morning, the President admitted that he is a frustrated man and that corruption in the country is massive. It is exactly what is happening and it trickles down to the police stations. Even if those forms are made free today, you will still go to the police station and you are told: “We do not have copies. We are still waiting for them from the headquarters.” It is because they want something small from you so that they can give you the forms. As I speak, as a Member of Parliament for Marakwet East, we have a problem. It is still on the issue of corruption, the police and security. In the Kerio Valley of Elgeyo Marakwet County, men, women and children are living in caves. The insecurity in Kerio Valley is worse than ever. The police are patrolling the roads, but the people are dying. In the Supplementary Budget, this honourable House gave out money to the Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) to be deployed in those areas. Up to date, that money has not been released. We voted that money here in this House, but people are suffering in Kerio Valley. We are burying three people this weekend, who are victims of cattle rustling. To this Government, it is business as usual. State House is holding conferences of this and that. The other side of the Government is doing their own things. Maj-Gen. Nkaissery is walking around giving threats to Members of Parliament on this and that and yet, people in my constituency and Elgeyo Marakwet County are dying. It is the same corruption we are talking about here. This House appropriates over Kshs100 billion to the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and that money is wasted in the name of buying security equipment. That security equipment cannot reach Kerio Valley to protect my people against banditry. At the end of the day, there are so many reports in this House. I am in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). We have tabled so many Reports in this House about massive corruption in the Government, especially in the security docket, but nothing has been done. Instead of even reducing the budgets of those ministries, we are told to increase them and pass them using the tyranny of numbers in this House. I am very annoyed this morning because the runaway insecurity in my place is not a concern to this Government. People are moving from one part of the constituency to another conducting Harambee, and there are people who are dying in Kerio Valley and no one bothers. If we are told that the people in Kerio Valley do not matter, then I can stand before this House and ask Members to come before my people, do Harambee, buy our own guns and bullets and fight as if we do not have a Government."
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