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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "an animal at a butcher or when you go to buy an animal in the market, a handheld device can help you identify the animal, know who owns it, where it comes from and stuff like those. I feel that the branding should become part of the extension services that are offered by the counties for purposes of standardization. Let the animals be branded by counties not by individual farmers. Let us find a way whereby the county can brand, issue the codes and standardize all that. This is a very important development because there has been a lot of damage to the skins and hides through branding. If you go through Maasai land today, there are very beautiful animals. However, some have their ears chopped off and the back scratched. The beauty of the animal has been interfered with just to try and help to identify it. Consequently, they do many cruel things to animals of which this kind of discrete identifier would help. The branding of these animals should be more than the way we do when we put a chip on a vehicle to trace it. It should not just be for traceability to the owner and identification. It should go more into the modern uses of the animals and modern controls. Additionally, we can use it to penetrate markets to show that our animals are clean on how they have been handled and the kind of vaccination they have gone through. Madam Temporary Speaker, we can then penetrate the European Market through being able to demonstrate that this particular animal was born here, it has come through this kind of management. If we are talking of the meat being organic, we can demonstrate this from the kind of information provided in the chip. This is a Bill that is long overdue; that tells us that people in this country are still thinking. You sometimes get to a point where you feel the people in this country do not think. Nonetheless, I am very happy that Sen. Cherargei is thinking and has brought us a very good Bill that will help us grow. In terms of cattle rustling, we need to look at the crime. It is heavily mischaracterized. It is robbery with violence. However, it is passed over as a cultural event, which does not attract the kind of sanctions it should attract from the State. If we could characterize these things in a proper way and allow the police to deal with it as a crime of robbery with violence, I am sure it will disappear. However, if we continue handling it with kids’ gloves as a cultural activity, it will never die. It must be called by its name. It is robbery with violence. In the Penal Code, it attracts major sanctions. This Bill has come at a timely time. I will pray that the Mover and the rest of us give this Bill the time and the attention it requires. We pore over it with the toothpick to fix it and make sure that it is able to serve this country going forward. We need to be able to register our breeds. We have the Boran today and it is not benefiting us as much as it is benefiting the other people who took the genetics from here and tried to develop them. Nonetheless, since they have a proper record keeping system, they are able to get the premium matter of these kind of animals."
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