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    "content": "finish school and, at a later stage in their lives, will make informed decisions; they will be in a position to negotiate and decide whether dowry is to be paid for them or not. Another issue is that of lack jobs. We have so many youths in areas which are prone to cattle rustling, who are jobless. They have nothing. All they have to do is sit under a tree and scheme what to do next. When it comes to employment, we say that we want people to have a certain number of years of experience. What experience do such youths have? If experience is to be considered, it should be of how many kilometres such youths can run. They will be able to say: “One day, I ran from Marakwet to Turkana looking for my cattle”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you come from that area. So, you understand that our cattle run at a speed of almost 100 kilometres per hour as cattle rustlers chase them. If this was a way of gaining experiencing, then the youth could get jobs. So, there should be affirmative action for youth from this area when it comes to employment. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another place where the youth can easily access employment is in the forces. It is unfortunate that when they go to the recruitment centres, the recruitment officers start searching for scars. They look at the setting of their teeth. It is unfortunate that because of the practices of cattle rustling, some of them lost their teeth on the way. You will find that the vegetation in cattle rustling areas is mostly thorny bushes. So, they have scratches everywhere which they acquired as they grew up. As a result of this, they are not recruited into the armed forces because of the scars that they have. So, we must have affirmative action for the people in those areas. Another area which I feel was not captured well is school fees. When you ask somebody who does not grow any crops to pay fees amounting to shs20,000--- They do not sell anything apart from when they sell animals. When that animal is not there, sometimes they will just have to steal to ensure their children go to school. I feel that the Committee should capture affirmative action as far as school fees is concerned for students from those areas. I agree that there is the CDF fund but it can never be enough. If everybody in the whole constituency qualifies to get CDF, that money is not enough. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I once happened to go to Israel and I discovered that the dry parts of Israel; that is where they have put their educational institutions. It is not the case in Kenya. You will find all the universities and colleges in the arable areas where there is development. I really feel that one of the things that should be captured is an educational institution in the form of a university to be taken to the hardship cattle rustling areas. In the process, they will be able to mingle with others. If this is done, automatically, electricity and water will go there and businesses and industries will come up. As long as we have the rural-urban migration of the people from cattle rustling areas which happen to be the arid lands of this country into the arable lands looking for small plots measuring 10 by 10 or 100 by 100 and looking for jobs, then these people will still always feel secluded. It is no wonder that most of them feel that they are not a part of Kenya. As people from Marakwet East keep on saying, we got our Independence in 2003 when His Excellency Mwai Kibaki became President because he considered the people"
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