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    "id": 397982,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I happen to come from a constituency which has been perennially the hub of cattle rustling. That is Igembe Central, Meru County, and people from our neighbouring district are the ones who steal cows from us. Meru people do not steal cows. So, we have become an ATM box for picking cows and taking them to the other community. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when we talk of arming the KPRs, as one hon. Member has said, the weapons are given in discriminatory manner whereby some communities will get guns and others will not get. So, when you are grazing your cows with arrows and bows, then the other one comes with AK47 and takes your cows. This Motion should be amended to state that--- We have got Anti-Stock Theft Unit in our system. They are there in camps and they do nothing. Cows are stolen and there is nothing they are doing. Can we restructure and arm them? Can we put them in the right place and areas where cattle rustling is such that, if cows are stolen, they are right in the system? The people who are put there by the Government should be the ones to follow the stolen cows. But if we give every Tom, Dick and Harry guns to go for those cows; we shall be arming them to go and steal them instead of returning them. So, arming the people will not work. Hon. Deputy Speaker, cattle rustling is an age-old culture among some of our communities. This is where we should sit down as leaders and agree to go back to our communities and tell them that this culture of cattle rustling should come to an end. As I talk, we have been interacting with one of my neighbouring Member of Parliament, who is in this august House. We have been sitting and saying: “Let us go to our communities and tell them that stealing cattle is not the only way to survive. I had said here that if we go to our communities and tell people to let children go to school instead of going to steal cows, it will help. Let them go and earn a living by buying their own cows instead of stealing. I think that way, we shall help."
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