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    "id": 1354793,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1354793/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "These people travel even in areas like Lamu where you have the army there. If you could see the distance, they travel from the areas where they pick these animals to those areas where they are supposed to go, it is maybe 200 or 100 kilometers. How do they transport these animals and nobody is able to recover them on the way until they reach their destination? This means that these animals do not go far. They are diverted somewhere, not very far and taken to a place where they are quickly slaughtered and the meat is then transported outside the country. It is a very issue which impoverishes very many communities in our country and it must be taken seriously so that those who involve themselves in such big crimes are punished. However, we should not mete the same punishment to petty criminals who are stealing chicken, some two or three goats to cattle rustlers. Those are thieves and there is the Penal Code which is there in the Criminal Act that deals with such petty thieves who steal such kinds of things. There must be a differentiation between big theft and robberies, the big criminals who rob with guns and kill people. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to speak much more on this, but to end by supporting this and hoping that my friend will take into consideration some of the amendments recommended by my colleagues before me and have this Bill passed as soon as possible."
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