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    "content": "another. The difference is that they will do it but they will be caught. There are systems in place there. When you look at the number of Administration Police officers that we have, we understand that they are over 20,000 of them. Look at the Army and the police. They still run the way they used to do it in the year 1600. During the Desert Storm, America met a very big Iraqi Army which had over 1 million people and they were outdone within the hour just because of technology. What we are saying is that we should stop all these bad habits and start good practices by the Government to equip the few helicopters they have, old as they are, with modern weaponry. Modern weaponry includes laser guided, very accurate weapons which have night vision capability. The slight distances are so small that you do not need to get high tech choppers to come and do the job. You just need two pilots and adequate armor and you tame these people at night. If you could allow me to use a word which is not very parliamentary but I am resisting, it is a word called “idiocy”. For example, cattle rustling has occurred here and then, you have to move about 200 officers in lorries through a bush where there are no roads in the first instance and you are chasing people who are trekking through that place at supersonic speed; it is all a game in futility. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us be serious for once. Let us even do it at experimental level. Let us start with Turkana or even Marakwet and equip one simple helicopter that we have in the military or the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). By doing this, we will be able to contain incidences of cattle rustling. You know that in 1970s, poaching had reached an alarming state that everybody had given up until one man, Dr. Richard Leakey, joined the KWS and formed the Anti-Poaching Unit. They did not use technology but they had a commitment. They used choppers and very old guns but were able to control the menace. I want to remind this Government that Section 46 (1) to (3) and especially Sub- section 1 (d) of the new Constitution clearly says that citizens are entitled to compensation if they do not receive quality goods and services. So, this Government must be put on notice and I will encourage people who come from pastoral areas to note this and prepare suits against this Government if it cannot protect their welfare and if it offers sub-standard services. Those citizens are entitled to compensation. It is not Mr. Mututho who is saying that but it is in the Constitution and the rulings are there. The vice is rampant because of lack of equitable distribution of resources. If you look at the skewed distribution of resources over time, you will realise that some people have been condemned to permanent poverty and some people live in conditions that are very degrading as to deny entire human dignity. What makes a human being? What is a human being and if he or she cannot have food or security? What a show when you look through 2009 and see a beautiful Turkana or Pokot lady carrying an AK-47 with full magazine and a baby herding after three sheep which were left by the cattle rustlers? In a country like Kenya which is endowed with enormous resources, we are just behaving worse than that camel that went into a tent and tried to fit. Worse still, we are behaving as if we are squatters in a world that is “theirs”. “Theirs” means those people who have money and those who are in Nairobi and Kisumu and are protected 24 hours. What"
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