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    "content": "struggling to eliminate cattle rustling. This important Committee has come up with numerous recommendations. I will briefly highlight the important ones because all of them are in this Report. The first recommendation is infrastructure. You will find that there are no roads but we expect the police to track down the cattle rustlers. The police see people driving away animals but since there are no roads, they cannot risk their lives. So, they refuse to track down the rustlers and the animals are driven away. Security will be improved if the Government sympathizes with the pastoralists and constructs roads in those areas. People are dying and animals are being taken away in those areas. There is also no learning facilities and development in those areas. We sympathized with the Samburu on 22nd August, 2010. We went there and we found women crying because their children had died and all the animals had been driven away. We had to contribute some money to them. The hon. Members had to give some money so that those people could buy some things. The relief food which is disbursed to those areas does not reach them. The ones who are supposed to distribute the food eat the maize. So, animals are driven away and the maize does not reach them. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the relief maize which is sent there does not reach the ground. Even if it is 1,000 bags of maize, it does not reach the ground. We want the Government to do something about this. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the recommendations that the Committee has made is that the Government should dig boreholes at strategic points to curb the migration of cattle from the cattle rusting prone areas. This should be prioritized. The Government should initiate an all inclusive annual meeting to discuss the mechanisms of dealing with the cattle rusting menace. The meeting should be attended by political, religious, administration, civil society and other opinion leaders from the affected regions. The Government should set up provincial, district committees up to the sub- location level. This is another very important area that the provincial Administration should look into. We should have peace committees from the sub-location. The NGOs should be encouraged to venture into the arid areas for peace building and advocacy campaigns in order to supplement the Government efforts. The Government should encourage corporate entities to contribute to economic development in this region. The Government should give commercial incentives to industrialists setting up industries in cattle rustling prone areas, especially meat processing plants. It should also encourage investments in community projects that reduce poverty, generate income and provide employment. It should construct irrigation schemes along the rivers like Turkwel, Dam Stream, Arror, Kerio Valley, Kerio River, Weiwei and Tot, among others. There is a lot of water in those areas and irrigation should be encouraged, so that the youths who engage in cattle rustling will cease and venture into meaningful activities. For example, the Sigor Irrigation Scheme under the Italian Government has become very successful. The Pokots of Sigor have stopped cattle rustling because they have something to do. They are engaged in irrigation all the time. At the end of every month, they get some money. That has helped them. If such projects are initiated in all the areas where there is water, these people will stop engaging in this outdated activity and venture into other activities. I urge the local leaders, the Local Government and other stakeholders to encourage the application of range management. They should initiate, at least, one training institute per constituency on best practices and principles in range management."
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