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    "id": 1400958,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Murungi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to ask a supplementary question to the Cabinet Secretary for Defence. I thank him because he does not shy away from coming to the Senate and the National Assembly like other Cabinet Secretaries. When I entered this Chamber, I thought I was in the National Assembly, where I served with him as the Majority Leader for 10 years with Sen. Maanzo, Sen. Osotsi, and the rest. I also thank him for opening up the Ulinzi Complex on Lang’ata Road for Parliament. This is where we are practicing football that we love with the Senate Majority Leader. Tomorrow morning, I will be enjoying football in the stadium. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, you have commissioned the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to cattle rustling-prone areas such as Pokot, Turkana and Baringo counties. We have barracks in Isiolo. However, when the cattle rustlers get cattle from Meru, they pass by the gate of KDF, 78 Tank Battalion in Isiolo with 1,000 of these cattle. Why do you not give us the leeway that the KDF in Isiolo and the buffer zone between Isiolo and Meru protect the area as KDF? We are free to give you that land, so that KDF can practice whatever they want in that belt. This can prevent these rustlers from Samburu and Turkana from crossing to Meru. We can give you that land in the area where the battalions are, so that you can act as a buffer between these people from Samburu crossing to Meru for cattle rustling. Since we are experiencing this problem, you could consider this immediately or a Cabinet Memo could be issued to deploy KDF to protect our people in Meru. We are suffering. You are a pastoralist and understand the loss of raising 1,000 heads of cattle, only to be stolen in a day. This is the only thing I might ask. You were my Majority Leader and I served you diligently as the Chairperson of the Committee on Special Funds; I was the best-performing Chairman. Consider my request as a friend."
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