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    "id": 717986,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/717986/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Shidiye",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2070,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Muktar Shidiye",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. From the outset, we cannot treat cattle rustling casually. This matter needs deep thinking. It also requires us to change our strategy completely. This is if, as a country, we want to have peace and the pastoralists to stay in peace. Cattle rustling is not an ordinary business these days. In the old African traditions, we had people rustling from their neighbours. When you had drought, you could steal animals from others. When your livestock population decreased, you could go and steal animals without necessarily killing people. When those people lost their animals, they could come and steal from you. But now, we have commercialised cattle rustling which is very dangerous. We have a gang of 40 men raiding a village, killing people en masse and taking the entire livestock. In one single day those guys are reduced to poor people who have nothing to eat. The following morning, they have no breakfast. It is not like farming where if I steal your crop today and you harvest tomorrow, you can plant again and do other things because the land will not go. In the other case, people are reduced to beggars in one raid."
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