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    "content": "menace of cattle rustling also increases insecurity in those areas. That is why we have the so-called bandits in those areas. They are not really bandits but commercial cattle rustlers looking for cattle to steal and bring them to slaughter houses in Nairobi. It does not take rocket science to know how that menace can be eradicated. The colonial Government used to do it. Every family was given some kind of a symbol to brand their livestock. Why is that not being done? Those symbols would then be registered with the Provincial Administration. Therefore, there was no need of stealing another person’s livestock because the brand would betray you. I wonder why that is not being done. We must also do massive disarmament in the whole area. The argument has been that the Government must, first of all, improve on security before it disarms. This is a vicious cycle. It has been said that you cannot disarm when there is insecurity. When there is insecurity, people must have weapons. We must break that vicious cycle. When we are doing disarmament, we must liaise with the neighbouring countries. There is no point of disarming the Turkanas who are on our side of the border while we leave the others on the Ugandan side. It has to be done jointly. It should be the same case with Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. It has to be done jointly between the Governments. It is also very clear that after a drought, cattle rustling increases. Why is that? It is because of the so-called restocking. If we can buy animals and give them to the people who have suffered the drought, the menace of cattle rustling can be brought to an end. However, there is the issue of drought and the herdsmen not being given new livestock. What do those people do? They go stealing from neighbours. So, we need, as a Government, a policy to restock after every drought season. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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