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    "id": 666084,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "afraid to mention that even the area Member of Parliament, get a share of the loot. They promote this culture. The Government put in place machinery for ensuring that cattle are not stolen, or people whose cattle are stolen are compensated. The Government should use its machinery to go for those who steal and prosecute them just like a carjacker, murderer or somebody who has stolen from a bank or broken into a shop. They should be treated like criminals as per the law. Those who have been aggrieved because of the stealing culture should be compensated. We should relate cattle rustling to something like carjacking, robbery or something like that. There are cultures whose members have said “we cannot do without stealing animals.” Let it be known today that this retrogressive culture should be fought and declared a problem. The Government should fight it like we have been fighting Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) until we have stopped it. This is a culture which should be stopped. There are some communities which say that you have to kill a lion for you to be allowed to marry or to be circumcised. What happens when you have killed all the lions and those remaining are in zoos? It means those communities will never circumcise again because there are no lions to kill. It is not practical to finish lions. It also means boys who are not circumcised and have no lions to kill will never be circumcised. Therefore, if one has to steal cows so as to marry and there are no cows to steal, he will remain a bachelor. This culture should change. The other day we petitioned His Excellency the President as the Meru community. We have a document listing that we have lost cows worth Kshs400 million in the last three years to our neighbours in Isiolo County. We have demanded compensation because when there is drought and sugarcane is not doing well or there are problems with coffee, people are compensated for those losses. I thank the President because he is also compensating us for the loss of the miraa market in Britain. We also demand that those people who have lost property through cattle rustling be compensated. In essence even those who have been raped and molested one way or the other should be looked after. If the Government does not want to create this fund then for heaven’s sake put your machinery in order so that these animals are not stolen. I support."
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