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    "id": 945320,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, I will be very brief. However, I would like to add some information which will be of use to the Committee. If you look at that list given by Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe, some of those people are from my county. Incidentally, when the teacher was killed, I was in Baragoi that night. A statement made by a police officer the next day actually shows what was going on. I was there together with the Member of Parliament for Laisamis and some MCAs. We followed up the issue because the four people who were killed come from Ngurnit Ward of Laisamis Constituency. In the morning, the OCPD, said that the teacher who died was not meant to die. What he meant was that the teacher was killed outside the lodge where we spent the night. The teacher was with us but when he walked out, he was killed. What the OCPD meant to say was that the teacher was not supposed to be killed; the killing was intended for the leaders who came from Marsabit. I would like to urge the Committee to take into account that these raids have been there. It is actually an inter-county issue because most of the affected people sometimes come from Marasbit County during the dry season. In 1972, 1976 and 1996, there were raids. To jog your memory, 1996 was when the District Commissioner for Maralal, Henry Nyandoro, was killed when his chopper was brought down by the same bandits. This happened when the Government was trying to recover livestock. When the Government tried to recover livestock in 2012, 42 Government officers were killed. It has reached a point where it appears like Suguta Valley is not a part of Kenya. When similar situations occur in areas like Mt. Elgon, the Government dispatched the Military there to contain the situation. In Boni Forest - which is part of this country – the Military is there because there are bandits in that forest. What Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe did not say is that none of these animals are recovered. Once they are taken into the valley, you just forget them. That creates impunity and a myth that there are parts of this country which cannot be governed. If you have that kind of a situation, then you will not be providing security. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, allow me to add that the situation this year is even worse because the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government disarmed the National Police Reservists (NPRs) but he did not disarm the illegal gun holders. Now the illegal gun holders are the ones who are doing all this knowing very well that the regular police will not get out of their camps to go and follow cattle rustlers and that the NPRs who the Government has been relying on have been disarmed. It is a Government policy which is causing this insecurity. I would like the Committee to take it up very clearly with the Cabinet Secretary and establish how this policy was The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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