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    "id": 1218775,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera South, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdul Haro",
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    "content": " We are discussing this matter at a time when we are facing serious economic hardship in a region where there is a security menace. It is unfortunate that after schools opened, parents are still grappling with how to pay school fees. As a nation, we are supposed to be discussing the chaos we are facing with the Junior Secondary Schools. However, all the attention of the nation, and the important time of the membership of this House, is being drawn to this insecurity issue. I am a pastoralist and what happens in other pastoralist areas affects me deeply. When we talk about security or insecurity in this region, what are we talking about and whose security or insecurity are we talking about? It is security by who and for who? Those are some of the questions that we need to ask ourselves. What we are facing in this region, apart from it being a national and a community security matter, is also a serious economic security issue. Livestock keeping, which is the most important economic activity of the people in that region, is at the centre of this phenomenon. I want to draw the attention of Kenyans to the importance of the livestock industry because it is the industry that is being battered here. The livelihoods of the people in this region, which is livestock keeping, is suffering as a consequence of physical deaths from insecurity and issues that affect the people because of lack of food security that is centred around livestock. The Livestock industry in this country contributes 13 per cent to our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It also contributes 50 per cent of our agriculture labour force. The livestock industry supports 10 million Kenyans. All the pastoralists in the 25 ASAL counties make up 10 million Kenyans, which is one fifth of this country. So, it is a very important industry. Anybody who targets the livestock industry and the pastoralists living in the pastoral regions that depend on livestock is not committing the traditional banditry as we know it but is 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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