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    "id": 666068,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will have to give me an extra two minutes which Hon. Kamama has taken because there was no point of order. I would like to continue from where I left. It is not just getting the victims and compensating them. We need to get the perpetrators or the aggressors who take the cattle away. We need to know where they take the cattle, who buys it and what they do with it. We should as well take them to court. If we glorify cattle rustling as leaders, I do not think we will go very far. There are political leaders in this House and outside this House who glorify cattle rustling as initiation rites or as a cultural practice. I believe this is the wrong way to go about it. We need the security agencies to move in like they did after we buried the people. We nearly got cited for hate speech; we could have been the Meru six or the Isiolo three. We had people from both sides of the political divide talking about cattle rustling as if it was something very small but people lost their lives and many others lost their livelihoods. We have had he problem of cattle rustling in Tigania West and Tigania East. It is also in Igembe South, Igembe North and Igembe Central. We need to get the people who perpetrate these crimes. We should have them in the statutes as crimes against humanity and as armed robbery with violence. Cattle are not just for the pastoralists. This is because even we, the people from Meru, have cattle. I heard one Member say that cattle are supposed to be only for pastoralists. That is a wrong interpretation because we have cattle as well. Lastly, how do we establish this fund and who will run it? That is the important thing. Instead of saying “urges”, do we say “resolve” because many Motions are passed in this Parliament which “die”? They do not go anywhere. I had a Motion last year which has not seen the light of the day because no blood donor units have been established in the country. Nothing has come out of it but, I am happy with the establishment of the Intensive Care Units (ICUs). I support Hon. Cheptumo. This fund should be established. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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