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    "id": 765362,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Kenta",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to add my voice to this very emotive issue. Killing of cows does not resolve any problem. Killing livestock and diminishing the livelihoods of people does not add any value to any political setting. I would like to tell the pastoralists that when we are fighting and killing one another, other people are taking the opportunity to exploit our resources and taking our opportunities. I think it is time we settle down as communities who thrive or live on livestock and determine our future as one. To say that we have been treated as aliens in our own country will be an understatement. In fact, this is a clear case of abuse of power. It is use or misuse of raw power, but I can assure that whoever is doing these things to the pastoral communities is going to pay for it one day. There will be a time of reckoning and I can assure them that it shall not go unpunished. We know, as the Maasais, that you kill a cow and you have killed a child or a woman. We never touch animals because it is our livelihood. You have no right to do that. I can say that in the fullness of time, the injustices visited on the pastoral people will be addressed. It does not matter how long it will take, but those issues will be addressed one day and I think it will be soon. I suggest that we constitute a select committee to look at this matter. Let us have the offenders arrested, arraigned in a court of law, jailed and the key thrown so far away that they will never come out because that is what they deserve. I think as leaders from all communities, we must come together. I appeal to the Laikipia Maasais and the Samburus to come together. They are brothers and sisters and somebody is trying to divide them so that they are not able to fight for themselves. They are killing one another and other people are taking their opportunities. When it comes to land, we know the issue is not livestock. Livestock have been grazing in the mzungu farms from time immemorial. The wazungu said that they normally give the people a place to graze in times of hardship like drought. So, what has happened all of a sudden? The leases have expired. I am a lawyer and I know that they have expired. People are running to Laikipia to grab what was not theirs from the beginning. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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