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    "id": 252544,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Konchelah",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 322,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Sitelu Konchella",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank the Assistant Minister for giving me a few minutes to support to this Motion. I would like to talk about the livestock off-take. The Government provided funds to buy livestock from our people in ASAL areas. While this Budget provides the same money to support livestock programmes, I want to ask the Government and the Minister concerned to not only buy the livestock back and provide to the people but also ensure that the people who have no money to buy that livestock are able to access resources either through soft loan credit, or every family should be given a set number of cattle for re-stocking. When you look at the cattle rustling going on in the country now, it is a direct reflection of the poverty of the ASAL areas where people are fighting for their livelihood. They are taking cattle from other people to try and survive. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we, therefore, need to provide for and strengthen the Ministry in charge of internal security, to provide security for our people. When you look at the number of people dying either in towns or elsewhere because of insecurity, it is a shame to this country, and yet we have enough skilled labour. We are supplying skilled labour to other parts of Africa in terms of teachers, engineers and doctors, yet we cannot provide security for our people. The money that is allocated 662 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 25, 2006 to security should be utilised well. We should train a special force of people from the area where cattle rusting takes place. If we train 50 Somalis, 50 Pokots, 50 Turkanas and 50 Samburus and deploy them in those areas, they will flush out all cattle rustlers from there. I would like to suggest that the Minister considers special training for people from that area to tackle cattle rustling because it is impoverishing our people. On the issue of relief food, I want to thank the Government for providing food to ensure that our people do not die of hunger. Indeed, I also want to thank the World Food Programme for working with the Government to feed our people during the drought period. We still know that a lot of food is growing in the fields and it will take another three months before it is harvested. We will soon have a problem of transport. We, therefore, want to ask the Minister for Roads and Public Works to ensure that there are sufficient funds to construct roads so that our people can transport their food to the market. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my constituency, I have one pathetic road from Chebunyo to Esoit where people grow a lot of food but they cannot transport it to the market. Right now we have a lot of maize in the fields, which will be ready soon. However, the farmers cannot be able to transport it to the market, and yet they want to use the earnings to buy livestock. Finally, on the issue of registration in my Ministry, the Government gave directives that every Kenyan who has attained the age of getting an identity card should access the service for free. This is a Government policy and any officer who is charging the applicants is committing an offence. He will be dealt with accordingly. Indeed, I will take responsibility to ensure that four million Kenyans are registered within the stipulated time."
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