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    "id": 723194,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to condole with the many Kenyans who have been affected by the conflict in Baringo, Marakwet, Samburu and Turkana counties. Let us call a spade a spade. Leadership plays a very important role in bringing peace, harmony and ensuring coexistence among communities. Leaders play a very big role in inciting their communities against other communities, or in bringing peace. Let us not use the Floor of this House just for talk show purposes. As leaders, we should go to the ground and sit with all the stakeholders. In my constituency, 148 innocent students were killed by Al Shabaab . Every night, attacks would be staged in Wajir, Mandera and Garissa counties. As the leadership of that region, we sat down and brought a programme to the President. One-and-a-half years down the line, the north-eastern region is fairly safe from Al Shabaab . The heads of the security units in our country must play their roles. They cannot just sit in their offices. These include Hon. Nkaissery, the Inspector-General of Police, the Director-General of the NIS, their deputies and the Director of Criminal Investigations. They should no longer command from the comfort of their offices. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, people are blaming me, the DP and the President. Let us not turn this thing into politics. It is about the lives of the people. We have problems everywhere. There was the Mombasa Republic Council (MRC) issue in the Coast region, but it has since been solved. There are communities in our country which get affected year in, year out. It is no longer about cattle rustling. They are shaming the pastoralist community, which I belong to. I am one of the top leadership. I am ashamed as a pastoralist that while people in other parts of Kenya are building tarmac roads and taking their children to school, we are killing each other in the name of stock theft. Kenyans are walking to the stock exchange to make money while pastoralists are fighting. In Laikipia, people are invading private property. This is not about the doctors being on strike or Uhuru Kenyatta not doing his job. You can play politics, but when you are a leader, you must lead from the front. If it happens today in Jomvu where Hon. Bady comes from, he will fly to Mombasa and sit with the Officer Commanding Police Station (OCS) and Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) and discuss how they can reduce crime in Jomvu. If there is a problem in Baringo, Hon. Kamama and Hon. Cheptumo should sit together. If it is in Marakwet, it is up to Hon. Kisang who has said that the President and the Deputy President have failed. You need to leave Parliament, go to the ground, lead from the front and preach peace. If you preach peace, it will come, but if you want to play politics, it will not."
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