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    "id": 702778,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/702778/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
        "slug": "johnson-arthur-sakaja"
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    "content": "Bill seeks to ensure that cattle rustling is treated as a capital offence. Where death occurs, it should be given the penalty of arson or murder or robbery with violence. The amendments are on the Floor of this House. Without pre-empting debate, this Amendment Bill says: “When a person who, without lawful authority drives, conveys or transports any livestock without the permits required in law, commits an offence and will be liable to imprisonment for not less than five years”. We are also amending the Bill to say that a person shall not permit any livestock to be driven away. This relates to security officials in border points. Section 278 of the Bill says that a person who steals livestock or produces or receives any livestock without knowing or having reason to believe that it was stolen has committed an offence. The person who receives that livestock knowing that it has been stolen has also committed an offence and is liable to imprisonment for 14 years. The Bill further says that if a person, who in the course of stealing any livestock uses violence or threat of violence involving the use of a firearm or any offensive weapon, commits an offence and is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for life. These provisions are in an amendment Bill that is coming up for debate shortly."
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