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"speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
"speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to update hon. Members on the ongoing Operation Good Hope, aimed at flushing out elements of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) militia from North Eastern Wajir and Upper Eastern areas in Kenya, as well as on the alleged police brutality on two chiefs in Wajir North District. Over the last three months, there has been an increase in criminal activities perpetrated by suspected members of the OLF in Wajir, Moyale and Sololo. During the period under reference, these criminal elements have been engaged in highway attacks, kidnapping, robberies, stock theft, sale of firearms and acting as mercenaries for hire and torture of innocent Kenyans. The OLF organisation has been gazetted as a criminal gang under the Organised Crimes Act, 2010. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, intelligence reports indicate that the OLF militias are concentrated within Korondile, Sololo, Turbi, Dambala, Kachana, Buna and Bute, among other areas. More recently, in July and August, 2010, they fuelled conflict between the Ajuran, the Sakuye and Borana clans in northern Kenya, which culminated into attacks and counter-attacks, eventually leading to kidnapping of a peace elder by the name “Genge Okutu”, and the death of ten people, including a woman. During the exchange of fire, they shot dead one officer, APC Fedastro Paul Okumu, short in the arm a regular police officer, PC Benson Kalamut, and shot in the neck APC Jonathan Kiboi. They were treated at Moyale District Hospital and airlifted to Nairobi for further treatment."
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