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    "content": "Who is a cattle rustler? Cattle rustlers are businessmen. They bring all the stolen livestock all the way to Dagoretti. Are we saying that this Government cannot check the source of this livestock? Are we saying that this Government just sits and assumes that it is business as usual? What we are saying in this report, and I thank the whole team, especially the Chairman, Mr. Kaino, is that we have to call a spade a spade. The spade is that the Government has the manpower and resources and an obligation to defend the people and their livestock, but they are not willing to do so for their own reasons. There is partisan politics involved which the Government cannot be divorced from. I sympathise with those people who are in Pokot, Turkana and the many young men who have lost their lives in this new found game. If you look at the value of all the livestock in some of those locations after several raids by the Turkana it is not worth more than what they can achieve when they do a good race in international meetings. Since they are controlled by people who are outside that particular environment--- It is time we resolved that we either do it or accept it as our way of life, so that some people are supposed to kill each other. This is the same thing I would say about Malaria and mosquito attacks. If you look at the amount of money spent by the Government on control of malaria--- Look at the Malaria Global Control Programme and then you will understand that the Government reads the script upside down. I blame this Government in toto for not doing what they are supposed to be doing. I can say today we are lucky we have many Ministers here. They should, at least, stand up and tell us why they think that a Pokot’s or a Turkana’s death is less important than that of somebody who dies down at River Road or in Mombasa. Why do you take this nonsense? Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, why do we take this nonsense and allow a mother with a baby to carry a gun, an AK-47, to defend five head of sheep? This is a scandal and the gentleman called Mr. Ocampo must come and check whether someone else is doing what he imagines that Kenyans are doing. He should go right into the field. I support this Report hoping that during this financial year, we are going to see not only a reformed Police Force, but a section of the society that truly believes in mankind; a section of the society that will allow those children to grow, a section of the society that will allow those women to do what they are best at, nursing their babies but not being soldiers at will, attacking people who come to steal the little that they have. I beg to support."
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