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    "speaker_name": "Laisamis, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marselino Arbelle",
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        "legal_name": "Marselino Malimo Arbelle",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in the last two months, groups of armed militia have been terrorising residents in most parts of the country, with most recent attacks at a local village of Arabal in Laisamis Sub-County, where a man and his two children were killed and his wife severely injured on 18th September, 2019. A similar attack was witnessed in Baragoi, Samburu North Sub-County where four herders and a primary school teacher were shot dead on 25th September, 2019. This spate of heinous killings intensified immediately the Government disarmed all local Kenya Police Reservists in the area. While I appreciate the Government's intention on the disarmament exercise, it ought to have taken into account the communities living in the porous borders who are vulnerable to frequent raids and attacks. Hon. Speaker, numerous efforts to resolve this matter have been futile as exemplified by the fact that the Government has deployed police officers in the area, but the attacks have persisted and intensified. It is against this background that I seek a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security on the following: (i) What is the Government’s commitment to protect the lives and property of the residents of Arabal in Laisamis Constituency? (ii) What assurances are there and how soon would the stolen livestock be recovered? (iii) What mechanisms are in place to ensure urgent action to respond and end this menace, including a possibility of urgently re-arming the National Police Reservists in the area?"
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