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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Poghisio",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Losuron Poghisio",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will be one of the few people to oppose this Motion. I do not understand how you want to solve the problem of cattle rustling by simply resolving to establish a Select Committee to investigate the root causes of it and those behind the vice, and then report to the House. The Select Committee must be held responsible to do something. The Committee should not just go around investigating the root causes of cattle rustling and those behind it and report to this House without telling us how we will end cattle rustling. Knowing the root causes of cattle rustling and those behind it and reporting to this House will not help it. I am of the opinion that this Motion should be amended to provide that the Select Committee will, not only make recommendations on how to solve the problem of cattle rustling, but also on how to lift the people in the cattle rustling areas out of that. Otherwise, if it is for the purposes of knowledge, there is so much in the secondary school literature that anybody can find. A lot has been written about understanding the root causes of cattle rustling. So, I do not understand how 20 Members will go around for eight months to try to understand the root causes of cattle rustling. We can make use of that money elsewhere. You can interview hon. Ethuro, myself and a few others and we will give you the root causes of cattle rustling. We will also tell you some of the things that you want to know. For that reason, I believe that we can make better use of the money. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a Committee of this House that is charged with the responsibility of such things, namely, the Departmental Committee on Administration, National Security and Local Authorities. The Members of this Committee should go around the country. They have been hearing these matters all along. We have been raising these issues through Questions. We have come out a time when we were just establishing more and more Select Committees to do things for eight months. What is there to do for eight months? I would definitely want to end cattle rustling. I would like to see somebody come up with a solution to the problem of the proliferation of small arms. I would like to hear somebody telling us that the solution to this problem is for us to take all the children in the area to school. A committee does not need to take eight months to go around the country. By that time, more people will have died. Without this Motion being charged to something that I can believe in, I would like to be one of those who oppose it, for the reason that we are not adding anything into the system that will assist us. I am a victim of cattle rustling. Many times, the people that I represent get misrepresented. I believe that with the review of this Motion and something good is included, something better is going to come out of it, I beg to oppose it."
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