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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are the things that we observed. As I said last week, my Committee gave about four recommendations. I will narrate some of them. (i) We should carry out regular comprehensive livestock census and health centres after every ten years and keep records and that are to be updated by the administration up to location level. (ii) We should make laws that declare cattle rustling a capital offence and enforce them. (iii) We should develop a mechanism to control and monitor the movement of animals across determined boundaries. (iv) The protocol on prevention, combating and eradication of cattle rustling in East Africa should be domesticated and fast tracked. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I understand that Kenya is the only country that has not domesticated that protocol. You really wonder why, yet Kenya suffers cattle rustling. Many animals are taken to Uganda and others to Ethiopia. This renders Kenya a poor nation. It would, therefore, be necessary for Kenya to domesticate the protocol very fast. (v) We should mainstream the community policing, and each headman should be responsible for the safety of his village. (vi) We should encourage cultural exchange amongst communities and education as the driver of cultural change. (vii) We should establish one national and two regional schools in the regions to attract students from across cultural divides to bring harmony and dilute the strong negative cultural practices. (viii) We should encourage religious groups to set up institutions such as schools and vocational training centres to diversify economic activities. (ix) We should introduce the fishing industry, so that our people do not depend on livestock alone. We do not have fish rustling. We, therefore, can develop some fish farms in various places. At least, this way, our people will get some food. (x) We should introduce large communal groups and game ranches, and encourage communities to introduce high yielding cattle to act as commercial entity to better their livelihood and not a cultural wealth. Today, the animals that people chase, when milked can produce only a litre of milk or less per day. When you go to other places which are developed, you can get a"
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