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    "id": 381634,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me also to contribute in support of this Motion. This Motion should have come very early in the life of Parliament because according to me, we are discussing our people and we are also discussing a region. Madam Temporary Speaker, as it has been stated here earlier, ASAL regions in Kenya cover not 70 per cent – as I know – but it is precisely 88 per cent of the area of the country and only 10 per cent – according to my geography – is arable. Actually, 12 per cent is what most Kenyans depend on. It, therefore, calls for urgent reasoning as to what should be done to the 88 per cent of the country’s total area so that we can exploit the opportunities therein. One of the greatest opportunities in this region is livestock or pastoralism. But notwithstanding the fact that the Government, in the earlier years had made quite some effort by trying to control the diseases, that was done in the 1911 Maasai Agreement which forced Maasai cows to be limited to the northern corridor as a result of the construction of the railway line to Nanyuki. The Maasai were supposed to be in those areas and not to mix with the whites, who were in the suburbs. So, you can just see the attempt here is that colonialists did not want the ‘natives’ at that time to mix with the animals of the whites so that the natives’ animals could not spread diseases to the southern reserves. That is what made pastoralism in Kenya even worse because whites The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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