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    "id": 331956,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/331956/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "34 Wednesday, 21st November, 2012(P) Mr. Samoei",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to join my colleagues in sending my condolences to the families of citizens including our security personnel who have lost their lives in the last three months. I appreciate the Minister’s position very much. He has mentioned about raids and for a very long time we have had a country where children do not go to school. Many lives have been lost. I was in Suguta about a month and a half ago, at Nachoda, the very place where this happened. There are many children in that region who are not going to school because of cattle rustling and insecurity. There are no teachers in schools and there is no business going on. It is just mayhem. The question I want to ask the Minister and the Government is: When, how and what strategy does the Government have to stop this menace of cattle rustling that is taking this country backwards? When the Minister says casually that “this community is raiding the other or the other village is raiding another village” it looks very casual and looks like business as usual. When is this going to stop being business as usual? Does the Minister sincerely believe that we must rein in the cattle rustlers so that we can allow the children in this area to go to school, citizens to live as the rest of the country and contribute in turning around this economy? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we vote a lot of money for this Ministry which is responsible for security. What is the Minister doing for Kenyans to get value for that money? What is he doing so that we open up security purchases whether they are hardware or software to competitive bidding so that this country can supervise the use of colossal amounts of money that we put in our security docket that I am afraid we are not getting value for? What is the Minister doing because we keep complaining?"
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