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    "id": 1105277,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Cherangany, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joshua Kutuny",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Serem Kutuny",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I appreciate Hon. Sankok for rising to the occasion so that the House can address the issues of insecurity in Laikipia. Some of us have been around for a long time. I was in the 10th Parliament and I remember sitting on the same matter. The House adjourned to discuss insecurity in Laikipia. I remember the House rising to the occasion to discuss insecurity in North Eastern. It is time to speak the truth. With the promulgation of the Constitution and establishment of counties, if you look at this issue, it is politically instigated. Cattle rustling has been commercialised. Someone should not tell us that whatever is happening today is a criminal activity. In the 10th Parliament we formed an ad hoc Committee chaired by Hon. Boaz Kaino. We went all over Africa, including Chad and Ethiopia where there is rampant cattle rustling. We wanted to address this issue. We made recommendations. Those recommendations were shelved. The report has never been implemented. There is no tribe in this country that perpetuated more cattle rustling than the Nandi community. And we fought the British for 11 years at that time. What changed the community? It is education. It is the infrastructure that was established by the government. If you go to North Eastern, pastoralist communities get money meant for county governments but the people do not have water closer to them. How much do the county governments get? Billions of shillings. Put together, the money that Marsabit, Laikipia and Garissa get, it is almost half the budget of this country. But they are not modernising agriculture so that people can leave cattle rustling and invest in modern farming. In fact, these counties have special funds. But have they used the same to bring education closer to the people? No. So, what are we saying here? It is the same issue. What happens towards elections? People sponsor violence so that they can weaken a particular person. And there are government administrators and police officers who team up with the criminals. Where do you take 1,000 herds of cattle? If you steal 600 goats and sheep, where do you take them to in this country? If you drive away 500 cows, be it at night or in the day, the footprints will from a road and you can locate where the cows have been taken. But we are being told they disappear. There are two issues that we need to address. We need to address the issue of the politics towards elections and commercialisation of cattle rustling by the security apparatus in this country. That is the only way forward. I want to call upon the leadership of this country... I know Mr. Natembeya is a very committed Kenyan. Members have cast a lot of aspersions on his commitment to restore peace in that region. But I want to tell you that as a person from Trans Nzoia, he is committed. On the issue of Mr. Natembeya trying to use politics on the other side to try to perpetuate his succession in Trans Nzoia, that is a story for another day. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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