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    "id": 610953,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. KabandowaKabando",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The question of security has repeatedly come to the Floor of the House and indeed has engaged the Executive and Parliament very much exhaustively. Therefore, your query that we need to be very deliberate in putting programmes that will make sure that we intervene to bring some change so that, as we ventilate, we have comprehensive programmes on the ground, is exactly what many people would ask. Among many issues, as it has been suggested, the question of attitude also needs to be addressed. Cattlerustling is also a generational issue; it is like a rite of passage. It happened in the old days. It happened 30 years ago. It is happening today. Therefore, it is like a vicious cycle. Children are bequeathed with the culture of rustling and attacking neighbours for an award, including marking of the bodies of those who engage in the annihilation of other ethnic groups or sub-tribes. The National Youth Service (NYS) would play a very critical role. A specific budget should be segmented for those marginal parts of the country so that the NYS can go to the field and marshal activities that will engage the youth in programmes that will change or drastically and radically alter their attitudes. As that is being done, there should be utilisation of the county and Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), specifically in the sub-sector of education and more particularly in bursaries, so that the young males can be rehabilitated at the tender age of 13 or 14 by being contained in boarding secondary schools. That way, there can be collaboration between the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Devolution and Planning through the NYS so that education empowerment, youth rehabilitation and cultural attitudinal change can be internalised comprehensively. That would mean a major shift from the way things are being done. Otherwise, sending policemen is okay. It is required and should be very urgent but we should internalise that matter so that we captivate these people to nationhood and patriotism and decapitate their reliance on quick income generating activities like rustling, which is illicit and not different from thuggery and other forms of crime, including drug abuse. That is why the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology headquarters at Jogoo House should have this programme going forward, particularly on fees; so that we address the marginal areas. The little money available through the CDF and county government funds should assist in those areas. Otherwise with the way things are happening, we will still find alienation of a greater generation in those areas because of the stagnation and inertia at Jogoo House. Thank you."
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