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    "id": 175515,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 173,
        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. Before I make my contribution, I have a complaint to make about the replacement of a lady Member of this Committee with a male one. Ms. Peris Chepchumba has been replaced by Eng. Gumbo. We have 4006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES December 10, 2008 Ms. Rachel Shabesh, Ms. Shakila Abdalla and others who can be included in the Committee. If we go by the one-third rule, we need five women in this Committee. We only have three lady Members of Parliament in the Committee. I want Mrs. Shabesh, Ms. Shakila Abdalla, Ms. Leshomo, and Ms. Odhiambo to be included in the Committee. In support of this Motion, I want to say that cattle rustling or any form of insecurity affects women and girls. Our people from this region have suffered. This Committee should not take the proposed eight months. How can they take eight months when we know the causes of cattle rustling? I urge them to take two months to come up with recommendations on what the Government should do in this area. For example, we talk about DCs, DOs, chiefs or police stations in this area, yet there is no single vehicle for these officers. How do we expect our security officers to follow cattle rustlers? How is that practical? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no road in this region where cattle rustling is practised. We have thorny trees that bend towards the road, thus inhibiting people's movement. Why can the Government not construct roads in this region? I come from a constituency where we have suffered in the hands of our neighbours for many years. One night, 57 people were killed. However, no Government official came to assess the situation. The weapons that were used there were more sophisticated than the ones used by the Government officers. One wonders where our Government was when more sophisticated weapons were brought into the country. The National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS), I wonder what work they do. What would be the use of informing the Government of impending attack if no action will be taken? The Government knows the causes of cattle rustling. They have even written research books on it. If you went to the Office of the President, you will find shelves full of material on the causes of cattle rustling, yet they have done nothing. In 2003---"
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