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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first of all, confirm that the intervention button still works. I tried several times yet you did not see my request. However, my substantive point is that I stand to condemn what is happening in Laikipia. I do not like to go the way my colleague, the Senator for Mandera is; taking the position that the Government is out to exterminate a community in that area as it were. We are now at the mercy of the media in the absence of an official Government position. I sympathize with Sen. Adan on the fact that the Government is not coming up with any statement. It would mean that the information I have – and I am not a Member of that Committee – would very well be the same information, a Member of that Committee, the Chairperson notwithstanding, would have. It is unfortunate that we have information only from the media. I take interest in these things. It is like two sides of a coin which are very severe. First of all, we are made to understand that there are armed communities in those areas, not necessarily in Laikipia, but taking their war as it were into Laikipia. At the same time, we are also given stories of local leaders who are using bandits to drive out owners of land. Some of them could very well be foreign owners but they hold the land legally. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, it is very important for us to get an official position from the Government. This is why the Chairperson was hesitant to give an opinion. What is in the media is that there is some reason why the Government is not taking full action against some of the atrocities which are happening in Laikipia. At the same time, whether or not the Government has an intention to do what the Senator for Mandera said. We need to get an official position. With that, I urge the Senate Majority Leader, in moving the Motion of Adjournment under Order No.25, that perhaps we do not adjourn until June so that we have time after the nominations are over to look at some of these issues because there may be no other forum under which the nation can know precisely what is happening in Laikipia."
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