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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ong’o",
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    "content": "positively, the Committee on Implementation to take it up and more importantly, the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. There is need to quickly take up this matter and call the Cabinet Secretary responsible to answer to questions why there is laxity. Even the Indian Ocean has similar problems. I have a question that was drafted by a Member of Parliament from Turkana. This one is even painful that the people who are harassing the fishing community are Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) officers. Getting back to the issues I have raised, I ask this House to pronounce itself in anger. There was a time I spoke here in 2009 and said that a President - I do not what to mention him by name because I know there will be issues of Standing Order although I am not so sure whether someone who keeps invading your territory qualifies to be termed as a friendly country - from a neighbouring country who is used to dictatorial tendencies wants to export that dictatorial tendency to our country. This is something that cannot be accepted in a civilised society. You may be weak, but someone cannot push you up to your bedroom. Even if you are a weak person, you must look for a panga and slash that person. Where it has reached, any Member who can take his or her time to have a discussion with the fishing community around Lake Victoria, they would tell you that it is because of poverty. That is why they still continue going into the lake. Otherwise, they would not. It is so frustrating. One thing that is very annoying is that there is no power in most of these islands. Still, when some organisations volunteer to provide power to some of the islands, our Government criminalises the provisions of that power instead of making it work better. The question that our people ask is: What crime did we commit in this country? Are we in this country by mistake? All of us came from somewhere. If we are here by mistake, someone needs to tell us where we need to go. I will tell you for a fact that we are here by choice and we are here to stay. Our people must be protected. So, the Government must act with speed. This is not something to wait. They must act with speed and ensure that this continuous harassment of our people comes to a stop. With those many remarks, in the spirit of nationality, because we have other representatives and I do not want it to appear like a regional issue, I want to ask Hon. Dan Maanzo, to second my Motion. I am sure my other colleagues who have a lot of information about this harassment will also have time to contribute. The Member for Nyatike is there as well as Hon. Opiyo Wandayi. I also spoke about Hon. Millie and the Member for Karachuonyo, who are all here. I cannot mention all of them, but I know they all have an interest in this issue."
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