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    "id": 718037,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I join my brother Hon. Kisang in feeling sorry for those who suffer this litany of failures. I call them litany of failures because provision of security is the first and foremost duty and responsibility of any Government. This is litany of failures because the people whose cattle are taken are deprived of their right to property, those whose lives are taken are deprived of their right to life and those whose children are not going to school, their children are deprived of their right to education. This is litany of failures by the Government in power. There was no cattle rustling from 2002 to 2013 because there was a responsible Government which took care of those places. When you get a Government that does not care about the plight of the police and refuses to utilise the Equalisation Fund to develop areas which have been left behind, you get cattle rustling. If people cannot get water and pasture, they have to fight for the resources. If they cannot sustain the life of their cattle, they wait for restocking and when it comes they steal cattle from other places. These people who have been neglected by the current Government need to know as my brother Ken Okoth said, choices have consequences. These are predominantly Jubilee supporting areas. Those areas support this Government. If Jubilee cannot take care of you, make the correct choice. We are in an election year. Choose a Government that can take care of you. Nobody in the Government has gone to Marakwet, where Hon. Kisang comes from, to see for themselves the plight of the people being raided by people from Tiaty every now and then because those people think that the people of Marakwet do not matter. The lives of the people in those places do not matter. As my friend, Hon. Kisang, has said, if it was somewhere else, the force of Government would have been seen. Mobilisation would have taken place to save those places. This is not a laughing matter. It is not a joking matter. The role of the Government in power is to safeguard the lives and property of the people. Those who take other people’s property should be jailed. Why are they not known? What is the work of Kameru? Kameru’s job is to know those who perpetrate things – the lords of impunity. It is his job to know them. It is Muhoro’s job to arrest them and take them to court. Why are the officers not doing their work? They have failed. If they have failed and the Government has failed, they should get out of power so that we replace them with a regime which can handle those institutions. We should not come to this House again to discuss things as basic as cattle rustling when we have security forces that are able to tackle the problem. In fact, we need to discuss the morale of police officers. They are silently crying about their 42 per cent salary increment. The concerned Government officials are busy leasing vehicles – a process through which they make money – yet the welfare of ordinary police officers is not being taken care of. Police officers in this country are disgruntled. Let us discuss this matter. You can get vehicles but you cannot force police officers to use them to catch thieves, if the officers are disgruntled. Management of security is a key role of the Government. If this 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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