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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First of all, as part of the suffering community, I want to thank Hon. Cheptumo for bringing this Motion to reduce the menace of cattle rustling. I would also like to acknowledge that the Jubilee Government has tried to bring that menace down. Whenever we have that problem, the Jubilee Government tries to respond. Though it comes late, at least it tries. It has also given us an ear. Whenever we report that issue, the Government is ready to listen, though it is dull in responding. I want to come to the point by saying that the menace has brought a lot of destruction of property. When I was growing up in Turkana, whenever we had cattle rustling, people took only cattle and other livestock without destroying the property of the people. But the present generation has gone a bit high by destroying the properties of the victims and leaving them in a horrible situation. That is why we are saying that the penalty for that crime must be harsh to discourage those who are destroying property. We have lost many lives in North Rift region. They have very sophisticated weapons nowadays. A long time ago when I was growing up, our people used spears for fighting. The deaths were limited because you could not kill more than 10 people with one spear before you were killed. Now, weapons are available even to illiterate people who are using their guns to get economic benefit. They are killing many people by using dangerous weapons which are coming through our borders. The borders of South Sudan and Kenya, Kenya and Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia are porous. People are bringing in all kinds of weapons because those countries are fighting. They smuggle those weapons to our people who then use them to kill each other. Another issue that we are opposing harshly is the killing of students. When I was growing up, people used to come and take livestock. But they could not cut a child or a woman. Nowadays when those guys come, they kill even a one-month old child. That is why we are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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