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    "content": "threatened. Unfortunately, this is not the case on the borders of Turkana-Baringo and Turkana-Pokot. To me, that is where the insecurity in this country is concentrated. I know that there are problems on the border of Kenya and Somalia but you do not hear of these killings as often as you hear between Turkana and their neighbours. Therefore, I urge the President, being the overall leader and the chief of all the forces in the country, to do something about security along the borders of Turkana-Baringo and Turkana-Pokot. These people are not having little skirmishes here and there because they are chasing emaciated cattle across the border. That is not the case. I would like fellow colleagues to know that the fights that are going on today, where innocent children are killed are not because the children were driving cattle or carrying them in vehicles, they are about land and resources. It is not about cattle rustling anymore. You can see the evidence because the children that were killed were school- going children. Why should they be killed yet they do not own any cattle? There is something that is going on in some of these counties that is creating these problems that are giving Kenyans a lot of insecurity. I know that there are Members that sit in this Chamber and the other Chamber that are behind these problems. I know that there are people who are armed and are put along the borders of Turkana-Baringo and Turkana-Pokot and their job is to scare the people of Turkana out of their land. As soon as they run away, structures are constructed there, a chief is appointed and the area is claimed. This is conquest. I would like to tell those leaders that conquest ended in the 15th century. Kenya must have boundaries that were set in 1963 and they must remain. It does not matter how many people are killed or chased away. The boundaries must remain. I would have expected the President to call out the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to establish the borders so that we know where the border of Turkana-Baringo and Baringo-West Pokot counties is. We will then ask what it is that some leaders of some counties want in Turkana County. If there are resources in Turkana County, there are better ways of requesting and exploiting them. It does not have to cost the lives of innocent people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, insecurity bugs me a lot and I spend a lot of time thinking about and consulting on it. I hope that someday, some of the cartels that are interested in whatever is going on in Turkana County – its resources and the land –will wake up and find that we are all Kenyans. The boundaries that were set by the colonialists are the ones that guide the entire continent of Africa. If we start changing boundaries now, just imagine how many battles we will have in Africa. People will fight because land is what people fight about all over the world. With that, I think the President gave a good speech and I support."
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