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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenya should implement a livestock management policy for marketing, production, husbandry and staffing of extension officers even in those areas. The Botswana brand of cattle breed should be introduced in Kenya as it is able to withstand the dry spell. The military and other security agencies should establish more training bases in cattle rustling prone areas like Pokot, Turkana, Samburu, Moyale and North Horr. We should have more police training colleges. The National Youth Service (NYS) intake should be increased and affirmative action encouraged. There should be an administrative inquest on the circumstances under which the Samburu cattle in Lakarote Village were allegedly confiscated. All livestock rustling syndicates should be investigated under the provisions of the Organized Crimes Act with a view to taking immediate action. Another recommendation is that the Government should set up a special fund to access credit on concessionary terms to pastoral communities. The credit should be tailor- made for the youth in the affected areas for economic empowerment. The Government should also come up with an elaborate plan of restocking and destocking after a calamity. During the dry season, animals die and so, the Government must come up with proper safety measures so that those communities do not incur heavy losses during those times. The Equalization Fund may be used to benefit the victims of cattle rustling and a commission under the Ministry for the Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Areas should co-ordinate the activities of the special Stabilization Fund which may be established. Before I conclude, the Government may regulate the cattle trade. Health centres must be created in those areas because diseases are also a big problem. Drilling of water boreholes and sinking of water pans is also recommended. We have indicated several areas where, if the Government can establish schools, health centres, roads and bridges, it will reduce cases of cattle rustling. We have enlisted Laisamis, Igembe North, Tigania, Isiolo, Samburu, Sigor, North Horr, Baringo Central, Marakwet East and Marakwet West, Baringo North, Cherangany and all the districts of Turkana. They are all affected by the menace of cattle rustling and so is Kacheliba. All those places that I have just mentioned are the areas where the Government should set its eyes on so that those people can develop like other communities in Kenya. Our people should come up like any other society because if we overlook this issue, we shall find other communities having gone ahead thousands of kilometers in development while others are not developed; they have not gone to school or done anything productive. With these few remarks, I beg to move and call upon Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona, who is also a Member of this Committee, to second."
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