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    "content": "from one county infringe on the other counties and settle down. It is even worse when this is happening in counties with neighbouring countries. We have the case of Moyale County where people from Ethiopia come in because of the porous borders. This is because we have communities who live on one side and they have relatives on the other side who walk in and out. On the issue of registration and double registration of Identity Cards, you can actually put zero into the system and you get multiple Identity Cards. This is a disaster that we are waiting to happen in this country. We are now thinking of elections and how to win the election. We are giving Identity Cards left, right and centre so as to get the votes without realizing that the process of getting an Identity Card is a vetted process. To get an Identity card, we need to look at the Birth Certificate, the birth rates and we also need to know if one is a Kenyan. If you are going to give Identity Cards to our neighbors, we will have people who will come here, engage in criminal acts and then go back to their countries. We will not be able to control them because of a short-term measure which can become dangerous in the long-term. One of the observations made in this report was the presence of natural resources such as geothermal or oil which can be a source of conflict. This is an area of natural resources. In areas where resources have been discovered and there is no clear policy of resource allocation, it becomes a centre for conflict. I remember when we were moving the Natural Resources Benefit Sharing Bill, 2014 in this House; these were the issues of consideration. We wanted these communities to feel that these are our resources and we are benefiting from these resources. It actually brings down the level of problems within the specific counties and creates a sense that these issues can actually be addressed appropriately. Various recommendations have been made. The first one is very important. It states that Parliament should fast-track a setting up of an independent commission as provided in Article 108 to consider county boundaries so that this is addressed, once and for all. It is in this Senate where Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. was addressing this. He brought a Bill to this House which talks about the county boundaries. They also state that there is need for political and administrative interventions to solve the problems of overlaps in the system of structure and administration, especially in Kapedo. This is to make sure that we have clear administrative interventions from whichever county. There should also be a clear angle of what these administrative interventions are so as to help them understand what is going on. We should reach a point in this country where the age of armed raids is a thing for the past. We are talking about a situation where people are killed. We are talking about a situation where many years later, we still have challenges in the security sector which should to be looked into. We need to look at the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). This report suggests that they look at how this CDF money can be used to address some of these issues. Lastly, they have also indicated as an observation and a recommendation moving forward, that police posts need to be adequately facilitated. Most of the time when you want a problem addressed, you will be told that there are no patrol vehicles, they lack petrol or police equipment such as radio for communication. This is an observation that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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