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    "id": 726837,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kipyegon",
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        "legal_name": "Johana Ngeno Kipyegon",
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    "content": "to date, their whereabouts are unknown. It is important that our country seriously invests in security and especially external aggression so that we can be safe. The killing of our soldiers in Somalia was our saddest moment. It was the saddest thing to happen to our soldiers. I keep thinking that our country should review our stay in Somalia so that we can secure our borders. We should make our borders safe. When you look at how our young men died, you realise that we have outlived our usefulness in Somalia. This Government has also dealt with other radicalised groups like Mungiki, the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) and others which were dealt with by the previous Kibaki regime. The Kibaki regime dealt with Mungiki, the Sabaot Land Defence Forces (SLDF) and the MRC once and for all. Our country is currently faced with cross-border clashes, inter-ethnic clashes, cattle rustling and many other activities that make our people live in agony. That is why we have moved Motions for Adjournment in this House several times just to talk about the insecurity problems in our country. If the past regime managed to deal with Mungiki, the MRC and the SLDF, what is so hard for this administration to deal with cattle rustling? What is so hard for this nation to deal with cross-border clashes? What is so hard? Those are Kenyans who have been living together for some time? It is only a matter of conducting proper investigations to know and establish who the people behind cattle rustling are. Like somebody told us, cattle rustling has always been a business. Almost half of the meat that people consume in Nairobi is from those cattle that have been stolen either in Turkana, Samburu, Pokot or Baringo. They are slaughtered in Nairobi. People are engaging in business at the expense of other people’s lives. Most of those clashes also are caused by political dynamics. Like I said previously in my contribution when there were problems in Trans Mara, although those problems are still ongoing, I requested the Government to investigate certain individuals. I was among those individuals. I never wanted to be part of the propaganda where people were claiming that so and so was involved with those particular clashes. I requested the Government to investigate the Governor of Narok, Samuel Tunai; a Member of the County Assembly (MCA) for Kimintet Ward, Ole Kijabe; an aspirant for Kilgoris Constituency and myself, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Emurua Dikirr. We cannot allow our people to die each and every day. Several people have died today and others are hospitalised. There is a man right now at Litein Hospital who was shot three times in the chest and survived. We buried somebody just three or four days ago who was killed, his body mutilated and cut into pieces. There are young men being buried in Kilgoris side. Those are young and promising Maasai men who would have lived to move this nation forward. But individuals whose motives we do not understand incite them to kill each other. I am happy that the Chairman of the National Land Commission (NLC) heard our pleas and had a meeting in Sawela in Naivasha two days ago. I am told he is now on the ground trying to resolve the dispute between the two communities that live in Kilgoris Constituency with regard to the two parcels of land that have always been the cause of conflicts in that particular area. I am happy and hope that Swazuri will deal with that matter so that we can find lasting peace in that particular area. There are so many other areas which have these particular problems just like what we have in Baringo, like Kirindoni and Soit. People are dying on a daily basis. We do not understand why. We want the Government to take charge and ensure that we have serious security in those particular areas. I have always been speaking on matters of corruption. I have always said that if there is something that will haunt the Jubilee Government forever is how they stole from the public coffers and corrupted everything. Maybe because of tribalism and tyranny of numbers, they might come back. Everybody is stealing everywhere - left, right and centre, from top to bottom. 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."
}