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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ochieng’",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to second this Motion. I want to make very brief remarks. Cattle rustling is a very serious problem which the Government must rise immediately and make sure that it is tamed. I also want to urge the communities that continue to practice cattle rustling to wake up and discard that practice because it is outdated. As you know, that problem has cost lives. The rustlers have also maimed quite a number of people in this nation. They have also deprived some families of their only wealth. It has made them poor to an extent that they cannot even send their children to school. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support my chairman here who has just moved the Motion, that the Government should actually be proactive. Instead of waiting to react when incidents of this nature have taken place, they should wake up through their intelligence officers, whom we believe are spread all over this nation. They should wake up and make sure that they tame this problem before it spreads further. We cannot continue to lose wealth and lives. We cannot continue to allow weapons of destruction to infiltrate into the country through our borders simply because the Government at times goes to bed. The Government has a responsibility and duty to make sure that it takes care of everybody’s life, especially the tax payers of this country. Even in my own constituency, that is Nyakach, for the last three years, I have lost 13 lives through cattle rustling and three or four people have been maimed and are now on wheelchairs as a result of this problem. We cannot continue to do that. We want to urge all our neighbours and even people from within the country, to stop coming into this"
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