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    "content": "action in terms of improving insecurity in those areas. The issue of cattle rustling, especially in the pastoral areas, whenever it occurs, it is business as usual. It is tradition and nobody takes it seriously, especially the security agencies. We have many tourist attraction sites in Isiolo County. We have reserves, but no tourists come to visit them because of insecurity. How are those counties going to develop because we are not generating revenue at all from those game reserves? We have very good hotels in those game reserves. Secondly, my point goes to the interest-free loans for youth and women. We have had so many interventions in terms of empowering women and youth. This time round, we must make sure that we do not go wrong. We must have proper structures in place in terms of empowering youth and women, especially in the rural areas or at the grassroots level. The Government should come up with proper structures at the county level to make sure women and youth are benefitting from this particular intervention. The other point I want to address myself to is the issue of minerals. We have had legislation in this country where minerals are explored. Unfortunately, the locals have no control over who actually explores these minerals. Big investors are coming to our areas without consultation with the locals. Most of them are actually very arrogant and some even harass our people. Some of the locals even get misplaced. This is a very good intervention. We would like to have the current provisions of the Constitution implemented where the communities have say and control over the minerals that are actually found within those counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue that I want to talk about and even my colleagues had already talked about it, is the issue of harvesting rain water. Last weekend, I was in my county trying to see how floods have affected my people. These are drought-stricken areas. Why can we not build dams and invest in the floods that cause chaos? It is time to do proper planning and invest in dams for harvesting rain water. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the issue of land, for those of us who have been under the trust land regime, we have been facing a lot of problems. People are given title deeds at the national level. Communities which have been resident in those areas are misplaced. Land is a sensitive issue. If you go to Isiolo today, you will see thousands of chunks of land owned by people who are not even residents there. These are people who have been serving in various capacities in the successive Governments. The Government needs to do something about this so that the land commission is given enough support to make sure that lands that are illegally acquired are returned to the community, especially in Isiolo County where Vision 2030 is being implemented. With regard to free maternity services, it is a good gesture because many women in pastoral areas die during delivery. They cannot access medical services because they live very far from where medical services can be obtained. I would like to appeal to the Government to make sure that most of the rural hospitals have ambulances so that they can handle the emergency cases. The county representatives are people who are mandated to run the county governments. However, most of them do not have capacity. If 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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