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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Initially, they used to burn illicit money from drugs or terrorism. Nowadays, those assets are frozen and victims of those kinds of activities are paid from those funds. The proposal to set up a fund is good, but we should look at it from the fact that there are people who are profiting from sponsoring cattle rustling. The people from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Ethiopia and all these countries around East Africa have intelligence, collaboration and police chiefs. If this protocol is signed, they will be able to mobilise their intelligence resources to trace people who are involved in order to get hold of them and freeze their assets. From those frozen assets, which are many, they will settle victims of cattle rustling. When you watch news and see a whole family moving, schools and hospitals abandoned, people sleeping in the open and women crying, it is a heartbreaking situation. Some of us do not have cattle rustling activities, but we have experienced a lot of violence in the past in Tana River County. I know how bad it can affect people. It is so bad and heartbreaking when we have population migration of poor people. We pray that countries in East Africa, especially Kenya, will take the lead. Kenya affects a lot of things that happen in East Africa. Our budget alone is a combination of all the budgets of countries in East Africa. Therefore, what we say matters. The Prime Cabinet Secretary should take up this matter of cattle rustling, start rounding up fellow Ministers of Foreign Affairs and loop in the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration, who should then round up the fellow Ministers for Internal Security. It is possible for us to do a regional approach to this problem, corner cattle rustlers and freeze assets of people who are involved in this illicit trade. If we do this well, I am sure there will be no space to run to by those sponsoring these activities for personal profit. Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Motion. It has brought the discussion to the fore on the action that needs to be taken, so that we help solve the problem that the common people experience in the North Rift. I thank you and beg to support."
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