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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "Although our officers are on the ground, they cannot be deployed to every home. We are looking for strategies to work around that and make sure that we mop out and finish that problem now that we know where the problem is. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have made tremendous improvement in terms of recoveries of stolen livestock. Before the operation, we had very many livestock stolen, which were not being recovered and we are actually compiling the data backwards from August and the entire of 2022. This is just to show what this administration has done as compared to the previous administration in terms of recoveries and those kinds of action. I am able to report that the data we have, at the moment, is showing marked improvement by this administration in terms of recoveries. We have had recoveries in Laikipia, Baringo and Samburu. Out of the 500 livestock stolen, since January, we have recovered 200 and 300 livestock are still at large. The reason being that once these criminals steal, they separate the livestock in small groups and disappear. They allocate each other 5, 10, 15 or 20 livestock and so on. So, when you recover these livestock, you will hear that 200 goats were stolen, but it would be shared 10 each to 20 people and they go to different directions. So, you will recover them in bits and pieces. That is part of the reason why we have not had 100 per cent recoveries. However, we are working on how to improve our recovery progress. Finally, the Senator has asked about what we are doing to make sure that our officers are trained. The National Administration Officers are trained and equipped. Right now, pending before the National Security Council is a proposal for a limited issuance of firearms to all chiefs, assistant chiefs and Assistant County Commissioners (ACCs) in specific areas which are facing harsh insecurity. This is to enable them support the NPS in tracking livestock and protecting themselves from armed criminals because they are normally a target and we have lost a few already. We have lost a chief in Samburu and we have lost one in Laikipia. We are considering a policy shift to provide firearms and also to give them training so that they can help us better serve the people of Kenya. I thank you."
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