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    "id": 73288,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/73288/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 197,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
        "slug": "joshua-ojode"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 30th November, hon. Chachu, the Member of Parliament for North Horr rose on a point of order seeking a Ministerial Statement with regard to the escalating insecurity in Marsabit District in which seven people had been killed and a number of livestock stolen in the last two weeks. In particular, the hon. Member sought clarification on the actions taken by the Government to secure the Marsabit people and why the Government had not taken any drastic action in the intervening period to bring the culprits to book and yet Kenyans had lost their lives. I wish to reply as follows. Marsabit Central District is one of the conflict hot spots in the upper eastern region. The district is cosmopolitan; inhabited by the Rendilles, Boranas, Burgi, Gabbra, Turkana and Konso, among others. The relationship among the communities can be described as uneasy and punctuated by mistrust emanating from cattle rustling, previous conflict and competition over scarce resources and political supremacy. The district is, therefore, conflict prone and a single incident such as murder is known to spark off revenge killings and counter revenges and could lead to full scale war, spreading to the entire region which is quite unfortunate. The security situation in Marsabit between December, 2009 and April, 2010 was calm. There were no reported cases of cattle theft and banditry. However, the following incidences have raised security concern within the district. On 4th May, bandits suspected to be from Laisamis and Samburu East raided Segel Area and shot dead Diba Guyo Kubi, Abdi Huka Bonsa, both Gabbra and one Galgallo Wario, a Borana. The bandits made away with 61 heads of cattle, five sheep, two goats and one donkey. All of them were recovered by my security officers. The bandits escaped to"
}