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    "content": "You will find that the contents of the Bill may not be new to the membership of this House. As it has been enumerated, it is the culmination of a process that began in May. For the last eight weeks, we have been very busy, as membership of various Committees, where we have been scrutinising the budgets of Ministries and agencies – an exercise which culminated in the proposals contained in this Bill. On that note, we are giving the Government the money it has asked for. Most of the departments may have had problems of saying they needed more money than what they got in the current financial year. We want to note that the State Department of Interior was appreciative that it got the money it was looking for. You will remember the incident that happened to my neighbours in Isiolo yesterday, where two police officers were ambushed and killed when they tried to get cattle rustlers who wanted to load onto a lorry, cattle they had stolen. The Government needs to note that before they get the money they seek from us, they must come here so that we can appropriate that money. You heard the story of the Boston Tea Party, where people said there cannot be taxation without representation. It is very wrong that the Government comes here year in, year out, looking for money and then bandits reign supreme in areas they want. We need to stop that culture. Cattle rustling is no longer a cultural activity. It is bad business, and the Government should put in place its machinery and infrastructure to stop those who profit from stealing cattle, camels, goats, donkeys and sheep. The practice is out of fashion. I know this House is infested with some rustlers. When you touch that issue, they tell you that we should not handle it in that way. I was shocked when the President was in Turkana early this month. He gave an order to the effect that the military should be called in to shoot those who would be found promoting insecurity. The following week, some Members of Parliament said that the President erred in giving that directive and that we need to have a different way of handling the situation. There is no different way of handling it. If a man is wielding an AK47, you should aim at his head. You should not negotiate with him when he is pointing it towards a security officer. We need to harmonise the matter across the country so that we do not have a section of this country believing that it is okay to arm some youth to raid their neighbours for cattle. I am unfortunate to neighbour some of those cattle rustling communities. We have suffered this brutality year in, year out. It is no longer about a culture of some neighbours, it is business. I ask the Government to put a stop to this culture. I admire the Cabinet Secretary who was being vilified here. If he can put his head to it, it can stop. If cheating in exams - which was rampant and very well-oiled - stopped, there is no way these marauding barefoot guys cannot be stopped. I support the Bill."
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