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    "id": 702725,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/702725/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Chebet",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Susan Kipketer Chebet",
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    "content": "There is no cultivation going on, so we will experience a lot of hunger. My prayer is to criminalise cattle rustling and equate it to robbery with violence so that culprits can be given enough punishment that can remove them from the community. Maybe they should remain in jail for a long time or they get life sentence. Secondly, we need dialogue between the communities. These are two communities that live close to one another. If we engage them in dialogue, maybe in future we will come up with a solution to this problem. We need the two communities to live in harmony so that we do not experience such problems. We have for a long time suffered through cattle rustling in Kerio Valley and other places. The Government should change tactic and see how we are going to come up with a permanent solution to this problem so that we do not raise generations that only know how to do cattle rustling and nothing else. I want to ask a question to the law enforcers or people who take care of our arms. One of these questions is: How can firearms get into the wrong hands of our population? How can we have ammunition supplied constantly to the people who have arms in the wrong hands? We need to ask ourselves as lawmakers and as a Government. Finally, if we still have the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security in this House and the same Chairperson comes from one of the constituencies that is warring or fighting, then it means we are not serious enough. If he is genuine in what he is doing, he should resign. There is no need of having a Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security who comes from that constituency and people are fighting since the time he has been in Parliament, he is going for the fifteenth year. If we are going to continue having him there, it means we are going to suffer a lot. I do not think the people of Elgeyo-Marakwet are waiting---"
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