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    "id": 666026,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/666026/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Banticha",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdullahi Jaldesa Banticha",
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    "content": "Thank you. I take this opportunity to thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this Motion. I also take this opportunity to thank Hon. Cheptumo for bringing this important Motion to this House. It is the responsibility of any government to protect the lives and property of its citizens. The successive governments in Kenya have failed to provide adequate security to the people of northern Kenya and other Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) in this country. As a result, many lives have been lost, properties worth billions of shillings destroyed and hundreds of thousands of livestock stolen by cattle rustlers in this region. The affected families have languished in extreme poverty and the Government has never intervened to help those families. The coffee and sugar-cane farmers have been compensated with billions of shillings for the losses they have incurred due to corruption and mismanagement in that sector. Why is it difficult for the Government to compensate the pastoralists who have suffered due to the failure of security agencies to protect them? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, because of the interest that this Motion has created and many people want to contribute, I do not want to take much time. However, I urge this Government to move with speed and establish a special fund to compensate the victims of cattle rustling and also bring the perpetrators of that heinous crime to book. With those few remarks, I beg to support this Motion. Thank you."
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