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    "id": 765342,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Korere",
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        "legal_name": "Sara Paulata Korere",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At such moments, I am lost as to what language to use to make my point across clearly and loudly. As the Member for the area where the massacres are happening, sometimes I wonder whether in this country there are children of a greater god and children of a lesser god. I want to condemn, with the strongest words possible, the killing of the cows. From where I sit, I am a serious livestock keeper and the only thing that can keep a smile on my face when everything else has failed is when I visit my herd of cattle. I am very much attached to them. But let us be clear on some things. In Laikipia North, for the last two or three years, the residents have suffered through the hands of armed gangsters hovering all around the constituency. Where I come from, children have been killed. Women have been shot in the stomach, for example, a pregnant woman was shot and the child removed. We have lost thousands and thousands of animals to cattle rustlers from the neighbouring Isiolo and Samburu counties. I must say it because in this country, it looks like being few is a sin and a disadvantage. When the children of a lesser god were being killed and our animals were being driven away, nobody spoke. I want to tell the Maasai nation that we are not a lesser community. The Laikipia Maasai are not a lesser community. I want to condemn the hypocrisy with which all Maasais are shouting at rooftops. Yes, compensate the people whose cows were killed. That is their livelihood. That is correct, but compensate the residents of Laikipia North who have been made paupers by armed gangsters."
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