Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: The problem is not the livestock; it is not the community to judge the problem. The problem in Laikipia County is the Government’s inability to provide security for people in Laikipia, Baringo, Elgeyo-Marakwet, Turkana, West Pokot and Baringo counties to live in peace. If you go to Baringo County, it is not only the Tugen who are there. There are various first clans of the Tugen community in Baringo, but there are also Pokots, Njemps, Kikuyus and people from all tribes in Baringo. The same applies to Elgeyo-Marakwet County. Therefore, you cannot now pigeon-hole this issue to this community versus ... view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: 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. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: President. Why can we not publicly donate this property to pastoralists, so that they can live in harmony, graze their livestock there and avoid this situation where there is competition between pastoralists and farmers? It is for that reason that we are saying on the Floor of this House that the people of Laikipia deserve peace; we deserve peace in Kerio Valley. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, today we are burying a young man from Tot area. Almost every week, we have been burying two or three people. This is an issue that bothers all of us. I want to request that the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations becomes a little bit serious. I heard Sen. Outa saying ‘we are not this, we are not that.’ I think we are just basically chastising and encouraging our Committee. We are trying to tell the Committee that they must live up to the expectations. How comes--- view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, just to conclude, my take on this Statement is that as a Senate and the Committee, we must be able to achieve two things. One, restoration of peace in Laikipia, but in a manner that does not divide the Laikipia people between ‘us versus them;’ whether it is pastoralists, farmers, this community or the other. Madam Deputy Speaker, you know very well that even people from your own community live in Laikipia. Laikipia is a cosmopolitan area, just like many parts of Rift Valley. We must achieve unity of purpose in Laikipia without dichotomizing the fight as ... view
• 9 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on this mportant matter. First of all, I thank Sen. Kinyua for bringing this important Statement to the Floor of the Senate. I feel the pain of Sen. Kinyua, because this is the problem we go through every day in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, in Marakwet East specifically and some parts of Marakwet West. The problem of cattle rustling, invasion and terrorism by dangerous criminals that have turned the beautiful Kerio Valley to be the valley of death, is something that freaks my conscience. This is a huge and ... view
• 9 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak on this mportant matter. First of all, I thank Sen. Kinyua for bringing this important Statement to the Floor of the Senate. I feel the pain of Sen. Kinyua, because this is the problem we go through every day in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, in Marakwet East specifically and some parts of Marakwet West. The problem of cattle rustling, invasion and terrorism by dangerous criminals that have turned the beautiful Kerio Valley to be the valley of death, is something that freaks my conscience. This is a huge and ... view
• 9 Sep 2021 in Senate: 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. view
• 9 Sep 2021 in Senate: 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. view
• 9 Sep 2021 in Senate: like Tot and Arror in the larger Kerio Valley region. I ask myself: where is the Government? As a Senator in this House, and at the time when I was in leadership of this House, we tried our best to resolve this problem. It reached a stage where the Government acknowledged to the public that they are unable to provide enough security to the people of Laikipia and the larger Kerio Valley region. A Government policy was put in place long time ago in 1970s that we need National Police Reservist (NPRs), who understand the terrain that these gangs and ... view