{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=138786","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=138784","results":[{"id":1404261,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404261/?format=json","text_counter":45,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Manyatta, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Gitonga Mukunji","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to join my colleagues in mourning our gallant soldiers. Last year, I happened to host Madaraka Day in my constituency. We had a very good interaction with soldiers together with General Ogolla. One of the interesting things is that I requested Gen. Ogolla to ask his soldiers to help us in planting trees. By the time the soldiers left our county, we were almost 10,000 trees richer than we had been before. It was a simple request, and he made a command directly to the commanding soldier on the ground to facilitate my office and plant trees with other leaders from Embu. That was something that left an impact on our place. It changed our areas on top of the enjoyment of Madaraka Day. I also want to take this opportunity to say that while we are mourning our soldiers, we need to look into the insecurity situation that General Ogolla was going to check on the ground. We need to stop banditry, and there is no other better time than this time that we have lost our soldiers. I also want to join my colleagues in saying that we need to look at the equipment that our forces are using. It is not only the soldiers…"},{"id":1404262,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404262/?format=json","text_counter":46,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Your time is up. Hon. Makilap."},{"id":1404263,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404263/?format=json","text_counter":47,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Baringo North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Joseph Makilap","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the people of Baringo North and the North Rift who have been victims of banditry, I wish to take this opportunity to condole with the families of the late General Ogolla and the entire team from the military that perished including one from our county, Col. Keittany who comes from Eldama Ravine. We want to say that it was a tragic accident for a general who was trying to help people in Baringo, West Pokot, Elgeyo Marakwet, and Samburu, the people who have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"},{"id":1404264,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404264/?format=json","text_counter":48,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Baringo North, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Joseph Makilap","speaker":null,"content":"always suffered at the hands of bandits. This gives me an opportunity to say that I actually interacted with Gen. Ogolla when we were trying to see how we could sort out the schools that were closed because of bandits. We had a meeting in the Department of Defence (DOD) with the Cabinet Secretary for Defence, and we even took photographs. I saw a brilliant, intelligent man by the name of General Ogolla. So, Hon. Speaker, because time is not much, this is an opportunity for the Commander in Chief of all the Defence Forces of our country, His Excellency the President, to get annoyed and apply Article 241(3) of our Constitution so that we allow the military to wipe our bandits in the North Rift once and for all, the same way they wiped them out in Mt. Elgon and Somalia. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."},{"id":1404265,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404265/?format=json","text_counter":49,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Let us have Hon. Atandi."},{"id":1404266,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404266/?format=json","text_counter":50,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Alego Usonga, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Samuel Atandi","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for recognising and giving me an opportunity to pass my condolences on the Floor of the House. First, let me thank you for coming to Siaya on Sunday during the funeral service of the General, plus many other colleagues who joined us including the leadership of the Majority and the Minority parties. We had the opportunity to say many things at the funeral. For now, when a person of this stature dies in the manner that General Ogolla died, some heads also need to roll. We are calling for a thorough investigation so that we can understand what happened. In the military, the Commander of the Air Force is somebody I believe is a culprit. If General Ogolla was a captain and a former Commander of the Air Force, how come he was allowed to fly a chopper that was faulty? This is something that we need to ask. Also, this House appropriates a lot of military resources, but the military ends up buying faulty choppers. This House and its Departmental Committees should investigate the Department of Defence. This department is corrupt but we never question them. The House must take this issue very seriously because the Chief of Defence Forces cannot be killed."},{"id":1404267,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404267/?format=json","text_counter":51,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Your time is up. Hon. Elachi."},{"id":1404268,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404268/?format=json","text_counter":52,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dagoretti North, ODM","speaker_title":"Hon. Beatrice Elachi","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to eulogise our fallen soldiers and, more importantly, send my condolences and prayers to Aileen Ogolla and her family and all the women whose husbands have fallen. I knew CDF Ogolla when I became the Whip of the Majority Party in the Senate. At that time, he would come many times when we had guests from foreign countries who would meet where our first father lies, and we lay wreaths together. He was one simple man who would send you an SMS and tell you something. If there were anything, he would even caution and tell you not to do it. As I pray for his soul, I want to plead with the people of the North Rift. Two days before the accident, we had a Motion of Adjournment to discuss banditry. After that, we lose our best of the best. He goes down. It is time the bandits looked at themselves in the mirror, went home, and made peace. Make that area work. We cannot say it is money or anything. They have the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and money from counties. It cannot be cattle rustling that can bring them riches. It cannot be. We cannot just sit here and laugh. There is a need for many things to happen in that area. One of them is to fyeka that area until they wonder what just hit them. That is the best you can have from all that we have seen."},{"id":1404269,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404269/?format=json","text_counter":53,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Gitari, Member for Kirinyaga Central. Give him the microphone."},{"id":1404270,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1404270/?format=json","text_counter":54,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Kirinyaga Central, UDA","speaker_title":"Hon. Joseph Gitari","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance. I condole with the families of the fallen soldiers. Kirinyaga Central was affected because Senior Sergeant John Kinyua Mureithi hailed from there, from a ward called Kanyekiini. Sergeant Rose Nyawira is a lady that I knew very well. Before they relocated to Mwea, her parents lived in Kirinyaga Central. She is a lady who even worked in my office when I served in the 11th Parliament. I have a plea for the warring people – whether in the civil society, bandits, cattle rustlers, or every other group in conflict in the North Rift – to honour the fallen soldiers, they should The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"}]}