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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir I remember when I was responsible for the foreign docket of this country, we went to Saudi Arabia and they were dying for Kenyan sheep. They tell you ‘we are looking for sheep from Kenya, those with a black head and a white body’. They are all over Northern Kenyan. What did they want? ‘Just declare your area through quarantines, treatment, and disease free sheep then bring it’. Somebody sits and says if this is done we lose our gravy train. So, farmers in those areas are at the mercy of others. There used to be cattle rustling where communities steal one or two or ten cattle from each other, now cattle’s rustling is big business. It is no longer one community going to steal 50-100 cows. It is the administration using their might to steal cattle in those areas from disadvantaged people and bringing them to Nairobi where there is a big meat market. You will just hear ‘we are tracking animals that were stolen’. So in one stroke a whole family loses all that they have been living on and have to start afresh. We have enough capacity in this country to grow hay and take to farmers in the North so that you save them from the ravages of Al-Shabaab and other criminal gangs that roam around with guns, shooting anybody in sight to take away their possession, we do not do that. In fact if you go to Narok and Kajiado, in one rainy season of two months you can harvest enough hay to feed all the animals of this country for the remainder of the year. We do not do that. Instead this country has lost the vocabulary of ‘earning money’, everybody ‘makes money’ and nobody earns money in Kenya. I am sure my distinguished colleague from Kericho sometimes sits in the office and a young police officer comes and says ‘excuse me sir, I joined the police four years ago and I have been at the report office help me go to traffic so that I can make money’. This is what we have reduced our country to. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Unless we change the psyche; we are busy shouting at each other lobbing tear gas at one another, shooting at each other. The other day when we were welcoming Hon. Raila Odinga from the United States of America, a policeman, I was looking at him. He aimed at my car and fired a bullet and it went through my car, from left to right. The entire boot windows were shuttered and he followed it by lobbying a tear gas canister into my car and I was in there. Hon, Richard Onyonka was sitting next to me; after they smashed the window I saw the OCPD of central throwing a rock at my car and it hit Hon. Onyonka and tore his ear and he bled profusely in my car. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, is this the country we want to live in? As we are doing this the Alshabab are walking in and out of Kenya killing policemen, civilians, looting property. We must change our psyche. I want to urge that until and unless every Kenyan is at some reasonable degree of comfort and satisfaction, no Kenyan will have any peace, because those hungry people will become angry and nobody will be safe. You can build fortresses or do whatever. I remember one time somebody said, it was my friend the late Ojode, that the head of Alshabab is in Eastleigh and the tail is in Kismayu. Why is the head in Eastleigh? Because people have lost hope. When people can dig a tunnel for months to access a bank to steal, that is not an adventure, it is an act of hopelessness and we need to address this. In a country where only 21% of our country is rain secure, the rest isn’t. A county like Marsabit is larger than Western, Nyanza, Central provinces put together. North Horr The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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