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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chumel",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Chumel Moroto",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important issue. I have seen all the speakers in this House this evening are from the minority groups in Kenya, and all of them are just crying now and then; this is not the first time. I believe communities in Kenya are clustered. There are those ones which are very important and there are the useless, the minute that one cannot even count or think of. Take, for instance, even the campaign for voter registration going on, there are areas where the big forces are running to seek for votes. But all these areas that we are now discussing, none is even thinking of going there. It is equally the same to the cry these people are making. It is not because of their making. There is the saying that an idle mind is the workshop of the devil. Because they are not engaged, they do not have anything, so all the time theirs is just to fight. Even when you leave young children in the house, even grownups, when you put them in a place without engaging them, you will find them doing nasty things. I come from Kapenguria. That is western Pokot, where the Pokot border Marakwet, Turkana, Karamojong to the other side of Uganda, and Trans Nzoia. My constituency goes all the way to Turkwel, at the border of Turkana South, led by Hon. Lomenen. We initiated, because we saw there was nobody coming to our rescue--- As I said, there are community clusters. Remember when there was a problem of local brews in central Kenya, the current President ordered an operation for illegal chang’aa . Some chiefs were sacked. It was taken seriously. You cannot get such issues there now. But here, you find a Maasai fighting a Kipsigis, there is this Kuria issue, Kisii, Pokot, Turkana – nobody cares. The only person I can give credit is the former President Mwai Kibaki. There was a time when the other President Moi, who ruled for 24 years, anything happening in our areas, he used 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."
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