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    "id": 702775,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/702775/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kiptui",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Grace Jemutai Kiptui",
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    "content": "Interior and Coordination of National Government should answer this. Very few of the points we proposed are being implemented. The problem is with the implementation of the issues. I remember we suggested that for those areas which have not been opened up, we need to open them up by building security roads. We suggested that children should compulsorily be taken to school and schools be built so that this barbaric attitude that our people have is eliminated in due course. We also agreed that we needed to be very proactive whenever these things happened. However, the leaders from those regions have tried but not all of them. I am praying and asking the CS to provide the resources to enable us go back again and speak to these people. I am a believer of dialogue. I believe that I must win somebody over. However much force we use, if those guys are not convinced, they will not stop the problem. So, I ask the CS to provide resources so that we engage the communities and reason with them. I am sure with dialogue and a bit of firmness from the Government; this problem is going to stop. The women and children of Elgeyo Marakwet have been singing songs remembering what they went through in yester years. We used those ones as examples saying that truly peace can reign between the Pokot Community and their neighbours. There is a lot of disruption. As the leadership of the affected areas, we commit ourselves to do our part in terms of engaging our people to stop that menace. There are also cases of cattle rustling in some parts of this country. Punitive measures should be enhanced. People should be given alternative ways of earning a living so that they can stop cattle rustling. Some of them think cattle rustling is the only source of their livelihoods."
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