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    "id": 765334,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion since I come from a background of pastoralism. Pastoralism is an economic activity in my a[rea. Killing cows is reminiscent to destroying a 10-storey building. The economy of that particular tribe is down. It is like coming to Nairobi and destroying all the storey buildings. When you do that, you render the people poor in that area. Pastoralism is a lifestyle. We cannot live without pastoralism. When you want to marry, you have to give cows. When you want to initiate young men, you have to give cows. When you kill cows, you have killed our culture. You have killed our education and our institutions. Pastoralism is a lifestyle to the Maasai, Turkanas and the Pokots. When you kill livestock, you have destroyed almost five institutions in the particular area. We encourage intercommunity living in this country. All of us live in this country. You are allowed to go anywhere you want. You can buy land anywhere. We need to copy the system that the Ugandan Government is using of giving security to livestock and the persons taking care of them. The Uganda People’s Defence Force (UPDF) makes sure that livestock graze anywhere. Pastoralists are told to go and stay at home. We pay our men and women within the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and other security agents a lot of money. What is their work? Just to sit in offices or kill cattle and demonstrators? It has reached a time where this country must bring to account anybody who kills another person or livestock. The Maasais and Samburus have no guns. The Maasais have spears. The people who had guns were the Turkanas and they surrendered them to the Government because they went to school. When you stand here and say that the Maasais have guns that is a total lie. The Maasais are known for bearing spears. If you kill an animal and say that the herder had a gun that is a lie. We should tell the IG that we need the officers who killed the livestock to be brought to book so that they can compensate the affected families. The Government of Kenya must go ahead and identify the soldiers and make sure that the land where the livestock were killed is given to the people who lost their livestock. This will ensure that they stay there and develop it the way they could have used their livestock to develop themselves. In our region, whenever you want to kill an animal, first of all, you must know where it comes from. We have drought in this country. We cannot deny that fact. I can get my livestock from this place to another. Why? Because I am a Kenyan. That land does not belong to anybody. It was just a ranch. There were no crops there. If crops were there, we could have said they did a mistake by trespassing. Killing animals as they graze is not good. The Jubilee Government does not care about pastoralists. I wish we could go back to elections to take them home. Thank you."
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