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    "id": 812449,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Ekal",
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        "legal_name": "Malachy Charles Ekal Imana",
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    "content": "This matter is not a jovial matter that Members should be laughing about. This is a serious matter because life is being lost. Allow me to resume. I was saying that this kind of brutality has not been seen anywhere in this country even with Al Shabaab . I just do not understand why a local community should be hit with such brutal force. I am told that the conductor of this kind of brutality is an Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) from Meru County. I would like to remind such an OCPD that there are many Meru people who call us Ntaani . They like being in Turkana and we are living with them peacefully. However, when I tell Turkanas that the person leading this brutality and killing Turkana people is from Meru, I do not know how happy they will be. They will look at Merus in a different light. The operation has been mounted with one helicopter, four tanks which are fully armed and firing carelessly at everything they see. They also have up to 30 military vehicles, scores of police, General Service Unit (GSU) officers and Administration Police (AP) officers. You would think that the Government of Kenya is under attack to cause the military to go with all this kind of arsenal. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the search for sustainable peace among the pastoralist communities who have for a long time engaged in armed cattle rustling has eluded practitioners and policymakers. It still obtains as a major challenge to peace and security. There is need to device techniques for constructively handling different and divergent communities to prevent disputes from erupting into violent crisis. Further, there is also need to design appropriate institutions and structures that will find solutions to the existing conflict and accommodate all parties to conflict with a view to restoring lasting peace. What I get from Turkana leaders in Isiolo County is that some political leaders in that particular county are the ones fueling this because of political gain. They want to see Turkanas out of Isiolo County and appeal to the other communities who think that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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