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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Koech",
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        "legal_name": "David Kibet Koech",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir for giving me this opportunity to contribute and support this very important report. As I support the report, we are all aware that we formed a select Committee to extensively look into issues surrounding cattle-rustling in this country, and this one comes ahead of that. I want to state categorically that I do not come from Isiolo, neither do I come from Samburu. However, Isiolo and Samburu are part of this country known as Kenya. It is time that we, as Kenyans, looked at each and every part of this country as one country. I want to appreciate the recommendations made by the Committee and ask that--- This is not the first time we are having such recommendations. There are very many recommendations that have been made, but the implementation part has been wanting especially, on the part of Government. It is important that, as hon. Members of this House, we all empathize with our colleagues from those regions, who are very emotional in their feelings about what goes on amongst their people. Any leader of this country visiting those parts of the world will always realize one thing; that insecurity is real. It disturbs us, as leaders, to note and see in the report that they do not have enough police officers. Even the patrol vehicles that the hon. Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security has been talking about--- He even claimed this morning that he has enough police officers to man this country. The police officers are very scarce and they are never found in certain parts of this country. Some of our Government leaders sometimes talk as if they do not understand issues regarding certain parts of this country. I would have loved to see in the report and I want to recommend the same; that it is high time the Ministers of the Republic of Kenya who fly flags take one week off to visit the entire upper Eastern and North Eastern, so that they come back and make policies that will guide, help and ensure that these areas are taken on board as far as development is concerned. When we talk of disarmament, we have been watching our poor Kenyans when the disarmament exercise is executed, telling the entire public “as we surrender these guns, who is going to provide security to us?” That answer has not been provided by the Government so that as it disarms these people we should see it moving in full force to provide security to the entire people of that part of the country."
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