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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is the President who said that security starts with us. So, I am propagating the Government policy that security starts with the leaders and citizens of that region. I am not contradicting the Government. If anything, I am insisting that where policemen are unable to do anything, the citizens should do it. However, in reality, there are certain elements of peacekeeping that do not depend on security operations. Work becomes easier if all citizens assist police officers in solving their problems. I am not saying that the police officers are clean or that they can abdicate their duty. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in any case, I thought he was going to agree with me that the Senate Majority Leader has admitted publicly that extrajudicial killings are real. That is the reality on the ground. It is the reality in Isiolo County, where my deputy comes from and most parts of the north-eastern region. This is something that the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights and the Committee on Security, Defence and Foreign Relations must take seriously. This is something I have said before and it is on record. If we want to make this country move forward, it should start with proper diagnosis and telling ourselves the truth. There are certain things that police officers must stop doing. Some of them are things I talked about. They include colluding with cattle rustlers to facilitate stealing of animals so that they sell them and share the loot from the stolen animals. These are the evils in the business of cattle rustling. We discovered that cattle rusting is not a cultural practice to have livestock for food. It has become a business that includes people who 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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