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    "content": "To conclude, the Government has put in place several measures to the address cattle rustling menace, which include, but not limited to, sensitization of community leaders on both sides on the need to co-exist and report known suspects through the community policing strategy, and beefing up of security in the affected areas. Secondly, the Government has established district, divisional, locational and sub- locational peace committees composed of elders from local communities to help the Provincial Administration in making, building and maintaining peace. Thirdly, we have also closed the Kenya-Somalia border to de-escalate the otherwise proliferation of illegal small arms, particularly guns from our unstable neighbours. Lastly, we have embarked on continuous disarmament by the Government designed at affording surrender of illegally held small arms with special emphasis on guns in exchange for amnesty. In this regard, the Government enlists support for peaceful disarmament of people at grassroots level through rigorous sensitization programmes. We have entered into bilateral agreements and co-operation with our neighboring countries like Ethiopia and Sudan, in a concurrent fight against the small arms. The Kazi kwa Vijana initiative which is meant to alleviate the vagaries of unemployment against the youth and reforms are in the pipeline to strengthen, make more effective the police and the Judicial system to ensure peace and administration of justice. Education through barazas by the Provincial administration on the need to discard harmful cultural practices more particularly in cattle rustling areas is on-going."
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