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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
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        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
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    "content": "challenges of losing livelihoods and displacement. So, it is not a problem that can be wished away. For 46 years, we have wished this problem away. I think this is the time we have to say, let this problem come to an end. I remember that the Tenth Parliament came in, in 2008. We had a series of meetings following a number of deaths that occured in Turkana. More than 40 Members of Parliament met with the Minister for Provincial Administration Internal Security and all the security chiefs to discuss what actions and programmess could be implemented to eliminate this problem. In addition to that, recently 24 Members of Parliament met his Excellency the President to discuss with him how best we could comprehensively resolve this particular problem. We did present to the President, a comprehensive budget of Kshs5.2 billion, that not only looks at the disarmament issue but also looks at peace building and providing peace dividends to ex-combatants, who have been born into, and known only, conflict in most of their lives. This is a testament that some Members of Parliament from these areas think that this is a critical problem. It is high time the Government took this as a national security problem, a national priority and planned for it. It is disappointing that even when we had the budget estimates tabled here by the Treasury, not a single shilling was seen to be devoted to eliminating this national security nightmare that affects 20 percent of our population. That is why I urge this House to adopt this Report. We should not only adopt it, but make sure that those who are responsible in the Government allocate enough resources to tackle these issues. I know the Government is strong. It has massive fire power. We saw it recently in Mt. Elgon when they were facing the SLDF. We saw it recently when it was tackling the Mungiki threat. We saw it also recently when it was tackling the mass action, following the disputed 2007 election violence. Why can the Government not put its foot down and tackle this problem now and forever?"
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