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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Samburu North, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alois Lentoimaga",
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        "legal_name": "Alois Musa Lentoimaga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I want to speak on the second Petition. I concur with the Member for Laikipia North for her concern on the killings. We condemn the killing of innocent people, destruction of private property as well as stealing of livestock from people who are innocent and unarmed. We neighbour Laikipia from the north. Just as my colleague has said, drought is what drives people to look for pasture and water. They go there not because they want to, but because of that need. The best thing we can do is to ensure that there is peace among the local people now that the Member is concerned about it. As Members of Parliament from that region, we need to support her to ensure that anybody who goes there lives in peace with the local people. I do not support the issue of excessive use of force by policemen. Last year, the police used excessive force. In fact, the military was used. They killed livestock. This cannot solve the problem. It radicalises people. It makes the youth angry and then they do not stop such behaviour. The best thing is to use peaceful measures like peace caravans among our people and, of course, to tell people who do not come from there to go back to their areas because, at the moment, there is a lot of grass in every county. So, they do not need to be there all the time. Let us avoid the use of excessive force because it will not help us. Of course, anybody who has land should be respected even if they migrated from Isiolo or Samburu. If you own land, you should be respected like any other Kenyan because the Constitution says you can live anywhere in this country so long as you have property."
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