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    "speaker_name": "Tiaty, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kassait Kamket",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to comment on the Presidential Address. What mostly concerns me as a pastoralist is livestock. At the outset, I want to thank the President for mentioning something, even though a little bit in passing, on the matter of the livestock offtake programme. I want to encourage those who sit around the President to realise that those of us who depend on livestock are also very serious stakeholders to the economy of this country. I would like to ask them to advise the President to remember that livestock is a key factor in the lives of those who look after cows. I am a bit disappointed with the way the livestock industry has been treated over the years. I hear lofty amounts of money being allocated to other departments like the crop industry but the livestock sector is not well considered. However, I am impressed that the President took it upon himself to take away the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) from the corrupt elements and gave it to the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), who have since revived it. I request that the success being observed at the KMC should be cascaded down to the right people in the villages that we come from. Livestock is devolved. I want to urge the KMC that with that success in Athi River, they should move down to where we come from. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the matter of security, I want to take this opportunity to appreciate the measures taken by His Excellency the President in securing our country both internationally and within. However, I want to take this moment to implore on the President not to listen and bow to political pressure to allow the re-arming of communities. I am aware that some of my colleagues, because of some little pressure here and there, have gone to the Office of the President to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government to re-arm communities to fight each other using Government guns in the hands of National Police Reservists. Since guns were removed from raia, we have enjoyed relative peace. There are skirmishes here and there but re-arming communities is tantamount to an admission of failure by the security forces, and it is not the right thing to do. In my opinion, the best thing would be to develop those regions. For instance, Tiaty Constituency constitutes half of Baringo County. All we need in that region is development. Let us fully implement the Equalisation Fund. Now that we 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."
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