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    "id": 765281,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Tobiko",
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        "legal_name": "Peris Pesi Tobiko",
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    "content": "unimaginable. There has been a lot of hue and cry. Whereas drought has forced pastoralists into very difficult circumstances in all parts of the country we are all suffering from different directions. Just the other day, livestock from Kajiado County that crossed the border to Tanzania was auctioned by the Tanzanian Government, around 1,300 livestock and we are still going through the pains and trauma of losing that livestock. Back here in our own country our own security agents took their guns which have been bought using taxpayers’ money to kill our livestock and sabotage our economy which we depend upon. Livestock has brought up a number of us who are in this House, paid our school fees and those cattle have been our banks. It is like uprooting coffee and tea in farms. This is the pain we feel and so due to public demand, I had to bring this Motion to the Floor of this Hon. House hoping to indulge the Members and to look for a lasting solution. In that rugged plateau, poor herders, white settlers, large-scale farmers, small-scale farmers, commercial cattle ranchers, tour operators, passionate wildlife activists, elephants, lions, hyenas, goats and zebras compete for the same space. Laikipia has profound inequalities in land ownership, with 40.3 per cent of the land being controlled by only 48 individuals. Even with this kind of inequality, it has been apparent that the ranchers cannot contest the idea of ever giving up the giant parcels of land to the original owners. Some of them have been offloading the land to other rich people, some of whom are foreigners, while top business---"
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