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    "id": 1279616,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, UDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Adan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Coming from an area that borders other countries, I know this problem is happening everywhere. I sympathise with my friend from Turkana and it is only that, maybe, this part of the country is not being exposed so much. This problem is happening everywhere. It is particularly affecting the pastoralist communities who are forced to move from one place to another to look for better pasture and water. When we deplete ours, we go to Ethiopia or Somalia. Recently, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) developed a very important Transhumance Protocol which allows pastoralists free movement within the IGAD countries. Unfortunately, that Protocol has not been signed here in Kenya. It is with the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Most of our neighbouring countries have signed it, but our Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs has not. As pastoralists, this Protocol will be a solution to our movement from one country to another as we look for pasture and water. Through the relevant Departmental Committee, I ask the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs to ensure that this Protocol is signed and brought to Parliament for it to be endorsed so that we can have free movement, officially and legally. That way, the problems happening around the border areas will come to an end."
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