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"content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution on this Motion. I am a saddened Kenyan for so many things that are happening in this country on matters of security. Just like my brother the Mover of this Motion from those sides of Elgeyo, Marakwet, Pokot, Turkana and those areas which are prone to matters of cattle rustling, I think cattle rustling is the most primitive thing to happen in this country as we speak. Cattle rustling, cattle theft and all those activities are things that should not be happening in the 21st Century. We have a Government that we give money each and every year. We have a Government that has got all the machinery, the police, the AP, the GSU, the NIS, the CID and a whole Ministry. This is a ministry in which we put billions of money and we need value for that money. As we speak people are still dying because of cattle rustling, people are still dying because of cattle theft, people are dying because of useless insecurity issues at the borders. We should call Gen. Nkaissery to come and tell us and give us a determination on when we will see an end to these problems. Sometimes it hurts us when we see a whole Cabinet Secretary (CS) engaging himself on matters of politics, trying to advise us on what to say and what not to say instead of engaging himself on matters of security. We have ole Kaparo who heads the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC). This is the person who should be calling politicians out on hate speech. It is not Nkaissery’s work. Nkaissery’s work is to ensure there is security in this country. I am very disappointed because even as we speak, just like my colleague from Narok stated, we have had serious problems in Narok: the border between Narok and Kisii, the border between Kilgoris and Emurua Dikirr, the border between the communities who are living in Kilgoris itself. People have been killing each other. When you ask them the reason, somebody tells you it is cattle rustling or cattle theft, somebody tells you it is land – so many fake reasons. The question of cattle theft lies with the administration. It is their job. We pay them to do that. The AP, the police, the chiefs, the assistant chiefs, the deputy county commissioners, the county commissioners, that is their work. No one should ask us why this is happening. It is their work to ensure there is no more cattle theft. They should follow until they find the cows or sheep that have been stolen. I also hate that. I do not like it. We have a long history of cattle theft. We do not like it. It is a primitive activity we will not allow to continue in our country. But allowing people to kill each other because of those activities is equally primitive. The Government must ensure that people do not kill each other. I am disappointed because for the last three to four weeks, some of us never celebrated Christmas and New Year. Why? It is because we were at the border trying to talk to the communities there not to kill each other. At that moment, somebody was enjoying. I do not know where Nkaissery had gone to. It is not our work to go and make peace. That is the work of Nkaissery. When I called him, he did not pick my call. When I texted him, he told me: “I will send my county commissioner to investigate.” After a few minutes, he texted me and told me: “It is a lie. There is nothing like that going on. You are lying and I will put you in for lying.” I told him: “Gen. Nkaissery, before arresting me, come and resurrect the two youths who are in the mortuary and come with them to my constituency.” Somebody cannot just take us for granted. I am a leader; I represent a people. I do not want to see people dying. As we speak today, the person who was buried today was the 12th among the many people who have been killed by guns and poisoned arrows. On the other side also, we have buried almost eight people from the other community who have been killing themselves."
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