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    "id": 717941,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kisang",
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        "legal_name": "William Kipkemoi Kisang",
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    "content": "the way they did in Mount Elgon so that we can do an operation to stop this thing once and for all. We need to live in peace because we have lived in peace for the last 10 months. I know what happened in Mount Elgon. The people of Mount Elgon are now living in peace and this is what the Marakwet community require. We want to live in peace. May we use the KDF because they have gone to Somalia and South Sudan and we are not living in our houses? Why can they not come and help us? As the community, we demand from the Government of Kenya to compensate us for the loss of lives and loss of livestock since 1992 because we have lost a lot. I actually lost my brother-in-law who follows my wife in an attack that happened in 1999. So, we demand and we will go to court. If it means going to the International Criminal Court (ICC), we can go to demand our rights as Marakwets. We ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, to step in. We do not know why he has taken too long to come to Marakwet even after loss of lives. He just came recently when the Deputy President came. He should be proactive and work. He should do what he did in 1984 when he was a major general. He needs to do that so that we bring this thing to an end. I want to give a proposal to assist the Government, if they do not have the ideas. One, I know in 2014/2015, there was a peace caravan across the country. It passed through Samburu, West Pokot, Baringo, Turkana and Laikipia. We need to start a peace caravan between the Pokots and the Marakwets. We need to engage the religious leaders to go across Tiaty Constituency and set up churches and schools so that our brothers and sisters across there may also develop because the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) is not enough. County governments also need to chip in to assist so that we can develop that part of the country."
}