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    "id": 732458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": "All the same, I want to talk about insecurity. Being a Member of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, I want to urge the Government to do all it takes to manage insecurity in northern Kenya. Kenyans are suffering where I come from because of the banditry menace. This menace has robbed us of our young people. It has also caused poverty in our area because people are robbed of their livelihood. It has also created ethnic hatred. It has caused displacement and orphans and widows are all over the place. Lastly, it has also denied livelihoods to Kenyans in that part of the country, especially Samburu North. This is because we wholly depend on livestock as our income earner. We have no other source of income except livestock. If this livestock is stolen from a family or wiped out, that family becomes poor, is unable to pay school fees, fend for itself and even buy goods like any other Kenyan. I want the Government to take action. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, having worked in the Civil Service as a District Commissioner, I am very surprised that the Kenya Police Service in this country is not suitable in our areas. They cannot work in pastoralist communities. I do not know whether it is their training, cowardice, environment or morale but they are unable to work effectively. They are only suitable to work in towns. The Government of Kenya should look for ways to bring another--- I do not know how it can do it but it is very urgent. The Government needs to do something because it is a matter of life and death. If it had deployed the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF), it must target those culprits that have stolen livestock and the livelihood of our people. On the issue of infrastructure, the Government has done very well. Infrastructure like roads, railways and electricity will go a long way in creating employment. We do not have to depend on white collar jobs. Infrastructure development will create self-employment for our people. The Government is moving in the right direction. On cash transfers, we also have good---"
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