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    "id": 71129,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/71129/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Magwanga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 73,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Oyugi Magwanga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to thank you for recognizing me. I have been trying to catch the Speaker’s eye again and again, but I had not been successful. From the onset, I want to commend the Committee for doing a very good job and coming up with very good recommendations. Cattle rustling is a backward practice and should be stopped in this country. Kenya is almost becoming a developed country and a thing like cattle rustling is a primitive way of living which should be discouraged. I want to support the Report fully. The Committee has come up with very good recommendations, which if implemented, I am sure the Government will give better service to the people from the cattle rustling areas than before. Cattle rustling majorly, is as a result of lack of water, which is key to the livelihood of the pastoralists and their animals. We should introduce a policy to make sure that there is availability of water in the ASAL areas to enable the people to rear healthy cattle which can be marketed within and abroad. We call upon the Government to help the people in the ASAL areas and ensure that there is availability of water. This can be done through drilling boreholes, constructing water pans and even pumping raw water to such areas to grow grass to feed the cattle. We have lost a number of lives as a result of cattle rusting. This does not reflect well on us as a country. If this report is adopted and implemented, this will come to an end. In Kenya, we come up with very good polices, but implementation is almost nil. When we go out to compare what we do with what others have done, we are shown the photocopies of our policies. I hope the Government will implement this report, which has emanated from this Committee. We need to encourage investors to invest in the arid areas, so that they can create employment opportunities for the youth in those areas and accord them an opportunity to"
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