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    "id": 812823,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to join the distinguished Senator for Turkana County in the Statement he has made about insecurity in his county. I was in Turkana County last week. Everybody who stood up to speak was crying about security. In fact, at the time, two Members of Parliament (MPs) from Turkana had actually led the citizens into blocking the highway so that the oil from the fields of Lokichar could not leave the county. Their message was very clear: “We are looking for attention because of insecurity.” Mr. Speaker Sir, it is totally unjustifiable for parts of this country to be like the Wild West. In Turkana, Samburu, parts of Wesk Pokot, and Baringo, people live as if there is no structure of leadership to protect them. In the legal framework of social contract, a citizen surrenders his right to defend himself to the state so that the state can defend him and his property. Turkana County is even in a bigger jinx because of the oil discovery. When I was in Turkana, I said that I would expect that the people of Turkana County will shift in no time from despicable disgrace to amazing grace and from abject poverty to opulence and wealth that will change the lives of people. However, if insecurity remains the order of the day then even being wealthy is meaningless. You cannot enjoy the little or the much you have because of insecurity. As I join the distinguished Senator for Turkana County in making this important statement, I urge that extraordinary problems require extraordinary solutions. As a matter of urgency, the Government should have a Marshall Plan on Turkana County and the counties that are bedeviled by insecurity, not to forget Garissa, Lamu and counties that are constantly under attack from Al Shabaab bandits. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Turkana County, it is not Al Shabaab. It is an internal problem where we are unable to manage the intercommunity interactions between the various nationalities of this country. More importantly as I finish, the problem of Turkana County is more complex than ever before because people are not fighting about rustling cattle, stealing goats and sheep or hijacking young girls to make them wives. We now have oil. We have very valuable lessons from Nigeria. The Ogonis started complaining about appropriation of oil by the Nigerian Government in the same way that the Turkanas are doing today. The 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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