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    "id": 718034,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kiaraho",
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        "legal_name": "David Njuguna Kiaraho",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. When you read what is happening in Baringo and Marakwet we, as responsible leaders, share the suffering of these communities. We know the situation we are in. We have persistent drought especially in those areas and all over the country. Other than these communities thinking about their daily livelihood, they most often think about how they will be raided in the evening and those things. We know the suffering their children and women are going through. Even if we send the whole team of General Service Unit (GSU) there that will not be the solution. This is a situation, in my opinion, the leadership in that area has to take responsibility. As Hon. Kuria said, there was a time we had a problem in central Kenya of illegal brews and we took the whole issue in our hands. I know almost every Member from that region went to his respective area and handled the problem head on. In short, this is one issue which I feel that unless the communities in those areas are educated--- The Government should step in and set up a special team so that it can get to the root cause of this problem. We know there are many problems related to politics, lack of pasture and water, supremacy in terms of various clans, proliferation of firearms and so forth. My recommendation is in three fold. First and foremost, a fund should be established to focus on this problem and the leadership from that area must get involved. I am happy because this afternoon most of the leaders who stood to speak are from those areas. They are the people I believe have a solution to this issue. About forming a special unit, I feel the Ministry under Nkaissery should take that seriously. If they take that seriously, we will solve this problem. The raids we have been hearing about are very unfortunate and sad. To me, they are very outdated. I remember many years back the Kikuyu community used to have conflicts with the Maasai. They used to come to Kiambu and take our cattle. 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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