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    "id": 1382095,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "As I support this Motion, it is important to state that the perpetrators of such activities must be brought to book. Other than areas that Sen. Cheptumo and other Senators have mentioned, there has been the usual practise of conflict in Sondu and Nyakach. When you look at the people involved, they do not have the objective of picking the cattle. However, they have a deeper objective of causing hostilities between communities that have lived peacefully. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have given an example of Sondu. We have Luos and Kalenjins who have lived there. They have intermarried, gone to the same market, lived happily every day and they trade together. However, one day, they just wake up and find people storming the other community causing unnecessary conflict. Those are acts of criminality and must be investigated. As a country, we cannot keep on talking about banditry, cattle rustling and Government to Government, when we are convinced that the investigative arm of this country is very skilled. Why is it that they are not able to investigate the mastermind of these criminal activities? Why is it that this is encouraged? Is it because somebody benefits from this criminality? If somebody is benefiting from this criminality, they should be investigated, their names picked out. As I have said, they must be named and shamed. Madam Temporary Speaker, the other idea that is always surrounding this criminality is that the proceeds from these criminal gangs are invested elsewhere in the country. Sen. Cherarkey mentioned certain developments coming up in our urban centres. It is assumed those are proceeds from those areas. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a country of values. We are talking about hard work and determination. How do we allow the proceeds of such criminal activities to be the sources of development in some of these urban centres? What are we teaching our young people? Looking at the Public Gallery, I see very young promising Kenyan seated there, but we are saying some people take proceeds from such criminal activities and invest back into our societies. Madam Temporary Speaker, because of the lives that have been lost on banditry, cattle rustling and the injuries that have been caused and the disruption of the education, institutions, activities and health services in those prone areas, I support that mandatory cattle rustling is an act of criminality and must be investigated. Additionally, it should be declared a national disaster. I support."
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