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    "id": 575173,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/575173/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "The other issue is cattle rustling. Hon. Lelit will attest to you that I have gone with my Committee to Baragoi, West Pokot, Turkwel, Sindai, Nginyang’, Loruk in Baringo County and Turkana South with Hon. Lomenen. We have seen what ethnic animosity has done to people. We have already proposed amendments to the Penal Code to fully outlaw cattle rustling and give capital punishment. For a long time, when somebody takes cows from another community, kills, and shoots and rapes somebody, we tell wazee to sit down together and talk about it because it is cattle rustling. There is no such crime as cattle rustling. It is actually rape, murder and robbery with violence. That is the amendment that we are bringing to the Floor of the House. We have seen that it is an economic activity. We have seen that a lot of the meat that we eat in Nairobi is a product of the cattle rustling that we are reading about. So, it has been turned into an economic activity on the premise that it is a cultural thing going on between communities. That is one thing that we are dealing with. A lot of public service audits have been done. There is one that is being done by the public service to tell us how communities have shared out positions in the public service. Even as that comes, we need to have a very honest conversation as a country in terms of how we deal with that. Do we fire certain people because of their communities or do we provide a framework going forward? This is also covered in my Bill entitled The National Employment Authority Bill, where if somebody is being hired, it will never be on the basis of his or her tribe. In fact, until the person comes for the interview, you will not know what his or her last name is or which community he or she comes from. We should base it purely on merit. As I have said, we need to focus, as leaders, on the things that unite us. The hunger that a child feels when there is hunger in Samburu is the same one that a child will feel when there is hunger in Kakamega or Suba. The joy a mother feels when a child succeeds in Turkana is the same joy that a mother feels when a child succeeds in Kilifi. Let us do all we can to unite our country. With that, I beg to reply."
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