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    "id": 581181,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/581181/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I support the adoption of the Sessional Paper No.5 of 2015 on the National Policy on Peace Building and Conflict Management. A number of factors contribute to conflict in our country, but let me just mention a few. I am happy that finally as a country, we are coming up with a Sessional Paper on how to address conflict. There is an interconnection between poverty and conflict. Poverty is a major cause of structural conflict resulting from unemployment, class struggle, landlessness, marginalisation, underdevelopment, inequitable distribution of resources among others. In our country, a number of issues contribute to poverty. One of those is the fact that many of our youths are unemployed. That is why there is conflict between those who have and those who do not have. In Kenya, scarce resources, increased population and worsening environment conditions have resulted in stiffer competition for land, pasture, water, fish and minerals among other resources. In the pastoral communities of north eastern and counties like Tana River and Narok, every time there is drought, pastoralists go around looking for pasture. Most of the animals walk for long distances and when they get to places where there are farmers, there is always conflict between pastoralists and farmers."
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