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    "id": 958400,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. Wambua for bringing up this issue of insecurity that mainly affects pastoral communities. In his case, it is pastoral community against settled farming communities. I join my colleagues in urging the State Department for Security to make sure that they look at how the security policy of this country is handled. In the vast pastoral areas, there is distance between the populations. Therefore, it has been difficult for the Government to have effective policing in those areas. With time, they have introduced the former Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) to assist the police in providing security in those areas. The communities are mobile and they move with them. However, early this year, the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government came up with a policy of disarming all the national police reservists (NPRs). That has opened those areas to serious insecurities because there are no regular police officers. Nowadays, they have been collapsed into one. Once the NPRs were withdrawn, we expected the coverage of the police to be enhanced so that they have police posts in each and every settled area or villages which are sometimes 60 kilometers apart. While waiting for that to be done as we have been promised, when they collapsed the Administration Police (AP) and the regular police into one, they closed down the AP posts which were all over the place. Now the NPRs are not there and the APs who have been there have been removed, it is now the people with illegal guns who are running the show. We have asked about it at the county level but it is like nobody knows what is going on. They said that they are vetting the NPRs and we should wait for them to be re- armed, but nothing is happening. That is why insecurity in my county is continuing on a daily basis because the people with illegal guns are having a field day and there is nobody to counter them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes last month, a whole divisional headquarter was terrorized by two young men who had guns and there was nobody to respond. Therefore, I urge the Chairperson, Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign and Relations to interrogate that policy. What happens that all of a sudden the Government felt that it is providing enough security and withdrew the NPRs? That is one of the problems that we have. For a long time, we thought that it is the most sustainable way to provide security in these pastoral areas."
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