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    "id": 1354772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya Mo fire",
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    "content": "I congratulate the current Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, Hon. (Prof) Kithure Kindiki. He has been up and down many areas. Actually, he has been to so many places, more than any other Cabinet Secretary that Kenya has ever had. He has been very categorical with making sure that this menace is ended. Mr. Speaker, Sir, away from that, as a country and a House, we need to have a resolve to make sure that this practice is ended. Sen. Cherarkey has brought in the Bill that we are supposed to brand our animals. We also have that traditional way of branding animals from where I come from. Sen. Wambua, my neighbor and uncle can bear me witness. We have that branding where, we have a hot rod inserted in fire then you brand your animals. Of course, that one does not really have much effect. I think branding animals where you transport them from Garissa to Kitui, then you get a permit in Kitui is also going to curb some levels of impunity. This is because, some people feel that when you own animals, you own everything in this world. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I strongly support this Bill considering that banditry has reduced quite a number of us into beggars and paupers in their own country. Some of us have not experienced banditry. The likes of Sen. Joe Nyutu, who lives in Central Kenya does not know what banditry is all about and may not even understand. If you ask people such as Sen. Wambua, Sen. Abass, Sen. Chute and Sen. Cheptumo, we have been serious victims of banditry. It has reduced quite a number of us into poverty and homelessness. This is the only time, as a Senate, we are supposed to pronounce ourselves and make some serous regulations on the best way possible through which we can make sure that this cancerous habit is capped to the head. Mr. Speaker, Sir, with my submissions, we must make this Bill sail through so that we can have some serious remedies and a strong foundation on which we are supposed to make sure that this archaic habit is stopped once and for all. I support."
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