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    "id": 794155,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/794155/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "but with weapons of mass destruction which have cost lives and economic muscles especially in the tourism sector. They also enter our country with some very hard drugs like heroine that have really destroyed our young generation. If you go to the Coast, you will be shocked at the amount of drugs being sold in the streets of Mpeketoni, Lamu, Nyali and all those towns in our coastline. We have also heard another type of terrorism that deals with cattle rustling around Lake Turkana. Those terrorists enter our country through those waters. Since Lake Turkana is not manned, terrorists come in large numbers, get prepared and attack our citizens without anybody noticing. When they go away with those animals, they set us back economically because cattle are the economic lifeline of most of the communities that border Lake Turkana. Those people come with weapons. Some of our pastoralist areas especially around Lake Turkana Region have been disarmed because we believe it is one tribe of Kenya fighting another tribe of Kenya. We have failed to realise that it may be terrorists coming from our neighboring countries with weapons, while we have disarmed our own citizens. When our people are made armless with people who are armed to the teeth, they take our cattle even during daytime. Now we are blaming our citizens for what happened in Suguta Valley where police officers were killed. We do not know whether those police officers were actually killed by the Pokot, the Samburu or the Nandi cattle rustlers. They could have been people from Ethiopia or Sudan or elsewhere. We also have another very important lake called Lake Victoria. It borders Tanzania and Uganda. We have a problem with Migingo Island. We do not have armed officers on our side. Therefore, our own citizens were being terrorised by policemen from the other country. Since we do not have our own, they take over the island that they believe is useful economically and do it by force because they have a force and we do not. That is why for me, the Coast Guard Service is an idea whose time has come. We also have part of Lake Victoria bordering Tanzania through which we have had mass influx of persons with disabilities who have been brought to our country to beg. Most countries know that Kenyans are very good at giving. That is why our streets are dotted with persons with disabilities who are being used in a borrowing kind of pyramid scheme. They are dropped in strategic areas in our towns and cities to borrow for the benefit of some tycoons and some cartels that use them as borrowing tools. I have tried to assist people living with disability especially when I was in the National Council for Persons with Disability but it used to be challenging. We cannot use Kenya’s taxpayers’ money to assist citizens of Tanzania because this is not one of the agreements of the East African Community (EAC). So, I really do support that we man our ocean and territorial waters including the inland waters. At times, you can have a lake with an island in the middle. That island in the middle can be used as a source and as a store for drugs and weapons. In the past, countries’ islands have been used as a telecommunication center to destabilise the whole country. Some countries have used those islands to destabilise the countries that host those islands through telecommunication by giving out classified information and sending back to the enemy country. So, it is just through the mercies of God that we have not heard of major incidences in which our country’s’ security and existence has been threatened by territorial waters that we have not been able to man. So, I really commend this Committee for having been progressive in their thinking ahead and safeguarding the security of our future generations. Therefore, I beg to support. Thank you very much for giving me that opportunity."
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