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    "id": 1354808,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Seki",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Seki Kanar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support this wonderful part of legislation from Sen. Cherarkey which has come to this House at the right time. I support the objectives of this Bill where we are looking at the issues regarding the promotion of security of people and animals, registration and management of livestock and livestock owners and other objectives in this Bill. This is a menace that has been there in the entire country, in the areas where there are livestock farmers, particularly the pastoralists. This Bill will definitely see the light of day for us who keep livestock. The Senator has tried to look at key areas that need to be looked into. I support this Bill because it has looked at areas where there is a big problem. On the issue of branding, the Senator has looked at it as a problem. I support that. We can sort this problem of branding by going county by county to try to specify each and every branding. Each county will have its own brand, which is known and there is a policy. If possible, county governments can come up with other legislation through the county assemblies. I hope that the Bill will give a provision where the county governments can do more legislative provisions to make their own guidelines on how to operate in this Bill. As my brother, the Senator for Kitui has put it, we want to look at how county governments or this Bill can modernize the branding issue. There are areas where you just try to put neck marks on the animal through the skin, piercing of ears or something like that. It is good that we do a modern electronic ICT method of branding such that we can identify a cow when it is moved or even when it is still there in the farm. This is something that this Bill needs to look into. The movement of animals is a key area that this Bill has also tried to focus on. We are worried because we have been seeing animals being ferried from one area to another, but no arrests have been made. Why is it that the Government is not arresting the people who are stealing our animals?"
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