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"content": "The youth should be trained in livestock husbandry, disease management, pastoral sociology and ecology, range, soil and water management. The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) should build regional abattoirs to regulate the livestock industry and marketing, especially at Lodwar, Pokot, Barwesa in Baringo, Marigat, Arror, Wamba, Marakwet, Samburu County, Isiolo, Kangeta, Meru County and Marsabit Town. There is need for the Government to operationalize the Lokichoggio abattoir. We do not know why it was stalled. Probably, this project stalled because of the activities of those cattle rustlers. This thing seems to be connected to the highest level of the Government. Why was a project like that, which should have reduced cattle rustling, allowed to stall and yet it would have helped those communities establish tea along Trans Mara, Gucha border and Cherangany to create a buffer zone and generate employment. Its creation will curb this menace of cattle rustling from spreading to tea zones. Once they drive animals through tea zones, it is possible to stop them because it is an open place and the animals can be seen. These people believe in doing these practices in the night. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we recommend that the Government should carry out regular comprehensive livestock census and health centres after every 10 years. The records should be kept and updated by the administration up to locational level. Another issue we mentioned is branding of livestock. This was done by the colonial government many years ago. We used to have animals being branded such that every community knew their own type of branding. But, today, animals are not branded; so, you can even get animals that could have been prevented from crossing to Uganda border doing so because they do not have marks at all. Everybody should know the marks of his animals when they are branded. You will know that these animals are from Nyandarua, Nyahururu or Samburu so that people can return those animals back. When you leave animals unmarked, these animals are the same. Unless we brand them and give every animal in every regions its own different mark, it will be very difficult to control cattle rustling. How do we control cattle rustling if we do not control it by branding? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should encourage cultural exchange amongst communities. We should encourage the people of Turkana, Marakwet and Baringo to meet once in a while so that the young men and women can meet, sing and understand their traditional roots. We also recommend that schools be built even in these communities. In other areas, you cannot even get one graduate in a location in these pastoral areas. How do we ensure that we are actually equal when education is still far away and we cannot even get graduates in those areas? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government must be serious if they want those people to come up. They must take education down to the grassroots, build primary and secondary schools along the border of each community so that those communities that are still practicing cattle rustling can stop that. This will give the children from Pokot, Marakwet, Samburu and Baringo a chance to meet with other children in school. When they meet together in school, they will have serious communication. It will be a positive communication to the Government and also to themselves for creating peace. If we only sing peace in Nairobi without doing anything meaningful on the ground especially in pastoralist areas, we are joking and these communities will lag behind for many years. Even after 40 years, these communities are still lagging behind. We have serious problems. The Government must be serious. If Members of Parliament really want these communities to come up, we have to stop other things from"
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