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    "content": "cow that produces up to 30 litres of milk. We should encourage our people to keep animals with high milk yield, and which can be disease resistant. (xi) We should encourage diversification of economic activities to include agriculture, mining and bee keeping. A very good example is that of Sigor. The Government attempted to do something in Sigor. The youths have now gone into farming as a result of the Sigor Irrigation Scheme. You no longer see them on the streets. You will see them in farms and every month they get some money for themselves. That has reduced cattle rustling in Sigor Constituency. The Government cannot even see that it should replicate such a project in other areas where there is a problem of cattle rustling. My Committee has recommended that in these areas where there is cattle rustling, we should assist the youth, so that they can undertake agricultural activities. In this way, economic activities will change from livestock to agriculture. Nobody has encouraged bee-keeping in that place. That is why we say that the Government must encourage the youth to engage in bee-keeping. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I understand that in Nyeri, there is the keeping of silk worms. Because we have many forests in pastoralist areas, if such a project is taken there, people will develop. (xii) We should zone off areas of environmental protection to act as buffer zones between communities by planting of non-indigenous forests in the zones. We have mentioned tea zones that can also act as buffer zones. (xiii) We can deploy the Anti-Stock Theft Unit in those areas. (xiv) Security forces should be properly equipped with appropriate equipment. Surprisingly, the people in those areas are used to guns. Even if they hear a gunshot, they will tell you what type of rifle it is. Even children know what gun it is, because they are used to it. They have heard it for many years. The Government has not gone to collect guns and people are still using them. The Government should deploy police officers for security reasons in those areas, and give them proper weapons. The police officers also know what kind of rifles these people use. They say; “No, this one cannot match ours. Ours is inferior and theirs superior”. The police, therefore, just go away. They cannot face the cattle rustlers. That is the situation in those areas. So, even though security officers have been put in those places, the officers have been given inferior weaponry. (xv) The disarmament programme must be a comprehensive exercise to remove all the illegal guns from wrong hands; the programme should be undertaken without delay, and in an all-inclusive manner, and the Government should provide adequate security during the programme. This has been done in some places, but because the Government did it half way, the communities from whom weapons have been taken away are being destroyed by those still holding guns. Those who do not have arms become vulnerable and useless because they do not have any weapons. So, if the Government is serious on disarmament, it should go from place to place and make sure that all those communities have been disarmed. The Government should protect the people. That is the only way we can assist this country."
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