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    "content": "who are living in pastoralist areas. Those people chase wild animals from one corner of the country to the other. The animal could even die as they chase it. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, those people require education so that they can realize that it is not only livestock that can sustain their lives. Education is very important for them and the Government must come in very fast and help them. While we are not looking at the problems of people who are living in the rural areas, many of them have died while others have been rendered poor due to the same. The Moi regime failed in that area and the Kibaki regime has also failed. The Coalition Government which has one and a half years to go has also failed. I have not seen them doing anything important for those people. Those areas lack water. People have been killed in those areas while fighting for the use of dams. People travel for almost 40 kilometers in search of water. The one dam you will find after 40 kilometers is shared by many communities and that is where people are killed. People travel for long distances without food. That is why I think it is important for this Government, before the one and half years are over, to do something. There have been serious massacres in this country. We had a serious massacre in Samburu where over 40 people died in one day just because people were scrambling to fight for ten animals. In another place called Kanambio in Laikipia West, Samburus were slaughtered by the Pokots. In Marakwet, in the Chesongwet Massacre, children, mothers and young men were cleared. If you go to that village today, you will see houses which are deserted and there is nobody living there. That shows how serious this issue is. We should ask ourselves: Where are the children whose mothers and fathers have died? They now loiter seeking for food. My Committee recommended that those communities be helped. Those children should be looked for and given a livelihood. Those are houses where people were doomed to die. The matter should not be taken lightly. I want the Government to take it very seriously this time round. My Committee looked at the matter and we felt that people were really suffering. We said that we will make sure that those people are assisted. We also realized that some of those issues are cultural. Part of it is cultural because when a young man wants to get married and he does not have animals, he can do anything to acquire some, including killing up to ten people so as to get married. That is very serious. While doing our work, we visited many areas. We also had the privilege to visit Botswana and Ethiopia. The most interesting place that we visited and really admired was Botswana where we found many people such as like Dr. Ng’ang’a and Dr. Wekesa. They told us that they have been there for 20 years. They told us that they used to work in Kabete. The people who are lifting the economy of Botswana are Kenyans. We went to that place and saw the development of industries. Even those who work at the Botswana Meat Commission (BMC) are Kenyans. You meet Kenyans who have stayed there for many years developing the BMC. We have the technology, and we have given out that technology before developing ourselves. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC); where is it? Look at Kabete! It is surviving by God’s grace. The whole livestock industry has been completely brought down. You will find Kenyans there like Dr."
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