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    "id": 71511,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 173,
        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank my brother, hon. Boaz Kaino, for bringing this Motion to the House, even though I have a few concerns, which I hope he is going to take into account during the implementation of this Motion after it is passed. The views of the people of Marakwet East, which is the epicentre of cattle rustling, were not captured. It is unfortunate that when the Committee went to Marakwet District, they only went to Marakwet West, and not to Marakwet East. In fact, the people who gave their views castigated the people of my constituency, and I beg that the castigation be removed. The Committee says in part of its minutes on page 29: “The area residents had been attacked by people from Marakwet East and their cattle taken away”. The minutes go on to say: “The majority of the cattle rustlers were from Marakwet East”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is not true, because cattle rustling in Marakwet takes place along the Kerio Valley, and affects the people of Tot and Murkutuor. In 2001, we lost 57 people overnight. The views of these people were not captured. I tried to intervene by talking to the Clerk Assistant, who was the Committee’s head of secretariat. I asked the Committee to go and have a hearing in Tot. They promised to go back, but they never did so until today, when I see these statements in the report before the House. On 23rd October, 2002, at Tot District Hospital, we lost 11 children whose heads were just bashed on rocks. The people of Endor at one point were known to be the terrorised citizens of this country, but their views were never captured. The Committee did not go to sit at their right place. The Committee did not hear the views of the people in Chesegon, which is between Marakwet East and Pokot Central, which has hon. Litole’s people. The Committee should have captured the views of those people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so far, we have come up with our own ways of trying to ensure that the people of Markakwet and Pokot live in peace. To say that the Committee sat in Kapsowar, where there is no cattle rustling, is wrong. The Committee"
}