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    "content": "we need to come up with a new paradigm. We need a paradigm shift, so that we can take care of the lives of the people in ASALs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want that office as a matter of urgency. We want it established in Lodwar, East Pokot, Isiolo or even in Garissa. When you look at what we have been doing since Independence, it is like there is a conspiracy between the successive regimes and nature to eliminate the pastoralists from this country. This Motion has come at the right time and we need to support it as a matter of urgency because that is what we deserve. Let us save the lives of our people. Right now, we have a serious drought that can actually decimate the entire livestock population in those regions. What are we going to do? After the livestock, we will have to lose human beings. Quite a number of people have died as I speak because we have not had a monitoring or an early warning system that is more credible. We need that as a matter of priority. On the issue of Kenya Meat Commission (KMC), it should operate like Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA). It should be privatized and pastoralists should be allowed to buy shares. That is the only way KMC can be meaningful to the people who depend on the beef sub- sector. For us to depend on the KMC, it has to be privatized, so that we can buy the shares and get rich like other people. I want us to learn from the people of Israel. I know that the budget of Israel is usually subsidised by the United States of America by almost 100 per cent, but the late Ben Gurion who was the first Prime Minister, advised the Israelis to go and develop the Negev Desert. Through example, he left his will that he and his wife would be buried in the Negev Desert, so that, that desert will not be forgotten by the Israelis. We have forgotten---"
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