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    "id": 717940,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/717940/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "These are basically cattle rustlers. It is not the Pokot community. These are cattle rustlers from Baringo County, Tiaty Constituency. For a while, we have requested the national Government, through the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, because we have seen it looks like they are unable to contain this menace, to help us. We have requested for Kenya Police Reservists (KPR) for the last 20 or 30 years. Recently, they gave us 45 for Marakwet East and 15 for my constituency but these are not enough. The place is vast. Tiaty Constituency is one-and-a-half times the size of Elgeyo Marakwet County. In that particular constituency, there are resources that we have requested the Government to assist. We have requested for about four or five additional police stations but to date, they have not assisted us to put up police stations across the other side so that if there are any cattle rustlers coming to Marakwet side to steal, the police officers across Tiaty would apprehend them. To date, we do not have any of the police stations that we had requested. As the people of Marakwet, we asked the Government for additional 100 KPR to assist us stop this menace. There are also other things that we had requested the Government through the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, especially the National Police Service. We had requested for two or three motor vehicles along Kerio Valley and Arror so that these will help. We need to know that since schools opened this term, children along Kerio Valley have not gone to school and these are the same candidates who are going to sit for Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and the Kenya Certificate for Secondary Education (KCSE) like everybody else in the country. They will not be able to compete with the rest because they are not sleeping. They are sleeping in caves. They are being chased away by snakes and other things. They cannot sleep in their homes because of fear of attacks. As I had noted earlier, mass voter registration is ongoing. Members of the Marakwet Community have a right to register as voters but we cannot do this because of fear of attack anytime by the cattle rustlers. What we request the national Government is if the National Police Service is unable to contain this menace, we use the services of Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), 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."
}