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    "content": "Government, we have to come up with mechanisms to protect the livestock farmers and shield them from recurrent drought and disasters. Ours has been institutionalized marginalization. If you read the Omingo Report of 1972, it shows that the pupil retention and enrolment rates in pastoral areas are very poor. There is Dr. Koech’s Report on education of 1993 and the UNDP Report on the deterioration of educational standards in pastoral areas; the Government could have put in place mechanism to deal with the issue. This is simply because the current education system and policy is not meant for pastoralist children. If you look at the land policy, despite the fact that 80 per cent of the land mass of this country falls under pastoralism, pastoralism is not recognized as a land use system in Kenya. This is why I am saying that ours has been institutionalized marginalization. If you look at the amount of funding and research that is being undertaken in other sectors like agriculture--- If a similar amount of funding and research had gone to pastoralism and the livestock industry, the poverty index in the ASAL areas would not have been as worse as it is today. I will come to that vulnerability. The intention of this Motion is to protect the livestock farmers. In early 80s, livestock products had outshined the combined export of tea and coffee. The intention of this Motion is to protect the livestock farmer from recurrent droughts. It is also to protect their resilience base. It is also to improve the coping mechanism of the pastoralist fraternity. With those few remarks, I second this Motion."
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