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    "id": 666081,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Seneta",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Yiane Senata",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I concur with my colleagues who have said that declaring it a national disaster is making the Government announce and affirm measures to contain it. I am also looking at a way of creating a fund which will encourage people to quit the practice. As communities, we need to think deeply about this practice. It really saddens me when I see our leaders make this practice tribal. Let us reason along this together. Let us look at measures we can put in place to prevent it and make sure that we stop it in Kenya. I am thinking about our security personnel. Our administration should put measures in place to control this menace because it is like any other crime. It is like stealing in banks and killing people through any other crime. We need to strengthen security and put measures in place to control this problem. It is also good to look for ways of empowering the affected communities so that they can have alternative livelihood. As my colleague has just said, the Maasai people in Kajiado used to practise cattle rustling like any other pastoralist community long time ago. It is because our youth have embraced education and other means of livelihood. We have seen this practice come to an end. I urge colleagues and leaders from other pastoralist communities to empower their people to look at alternatives. Let us empower them economically and educationally so that we stop this menace. I am also looking at whether we, as the Government, have put measures in place to criminalise this activity. It should be criminalised instead of creating a fund for it. A fund can be established to assist in drought management or assist the pastoralist communities in restocking rather than paying victims of cattle rustling. We can create another fund that will be like the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Settlement Fund. Everyone in Kenya wants to be an IDP because they want to be paid some money. If we set up the proposed fund, we must be careful not to embrace this practice. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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