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    "id": 894243,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamket Kassait",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. Mr. Hilary Mutyambai is going to fill the very big shoes of his predecessor, Mr. Boinnet. As has been said earlier, Mr. Boinnet was one of the most accessible public servants. If this gentleman is approved by this Assembly, he has a very big job ahead of him. I would like to take this earliest opportunity to invite Mr. Mutyambai to my constituency of Tiaty, as soon as possible after his swearing-in. There are plenty of problems there, especially in the areas bordering Elgeyo Marakwet and Turkana. I would like to take this opportunity to ask Mr. Mutyambai to join me in the effort we had begun with his predecessor to fight the vice of cattle rustling in Tiaty and the neighbouring constituencies. Mr. Boinnet and Mr. Kimaiyo realised that cattle rustling would only be eradicated using local solutions. I am very happy that with the introduction of the National Police Reserve (NPR), we were able to deal with this matter more decisively. There is a problem. What happened amongst the neighbouring communities was influenced by politics. The people of Tiaty Constituency were given about 40 guns to fight cattle rustlers. Our neighbours were armed to fight us. Currently, there are more than 700 National Police Reservists serving in Elgeyo Marakwet County. Instead of fighting cattle rustling, they have turned into cattle rustlers. The NPR officers or people who were given guns in Elgeyo Marakwet have become cattle rustlers. The people of Marakwet had never crossed River Keiyo since 1974. Now, they cross and kill easily. I will ask Mr. Mutyambai to reconsider the issue of NPR, especially in Elgeyo Marakwet. We need a total overhaul and re-vetting of the people who were issued with guns. During the reign of Mr. Boinnet, who I described earlier as a very good officer, there were some things that happened in my constituency that I would like addressed moving forward. One of them is the killing of livestock by police officers. I have never understood why a trained policeman would train his gun on a cow and give us nonsense stories that cattle rustlers were hiding inside the herd of cows. My people are very poor. For those people bordering Laikipia and Baringo South, their livestock were shot at point-blank range by police officers. I have complained and sought compensation. We lost almost 7,000 cows that were shot by police officers in the name of looking for cattle rustlers. Those are some of the injustices I expect Mr. Mutyambai to look into as we fight the issue of insecurity amongst our people. Finally, there is the issue of extrajudicial killings. We lost more than 15 young men that were picked up by police…"
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