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"content": "I feel that maybe we need to introduce a curriculum that will say how banditry should be dealt with. I know there is a Bill before our Committee by the County Assembly of Elgeyo- Marakwet. We visited them two weeks ago. They are saying that the issue of cattle rustling and banditry should be considered as a terrorist act. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must support that as pastoralists because we are not getting a solution to the issue of cattle rustling and banditry. We are pained as pastoralists because there is no solution. If anything happens in an agricultural area, you will see people running to provide solutions. However, when it comes to pastoralists, cattle rustling, and the nomads, there is no solution at all. We need to put our heads together and come up with a solution, as far as issues of cattle rustling and banditry are concerned in this country. Initially, we thought maybe banditry was being brought into this country by Al-Shabaab and other people, but now it is not even the Al-Shabaab. It is our own people doing the same thing as the Al-Shabaab. We know each other, but unfortunately, we sometimes protect even those who are doing the same thing. I remember we were being told of an incident in Elgeyo- Marakwet, where a bandit was attacked and was taken to the hospital. Can you imagine people coming to release that particular individual who had committed a crime, who had killed somebody? People went to the hospital to release him. This is unacceptable. I support the Bill, but we must get a solution to this problem of cattle rustling in the country."
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