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    "id": 92517,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/92517/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nanok",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Forestry and Wildlife",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 57,
        "legal_name": "Josephat Koli Nanok",
        "slug": "josephat-nanok"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this interesting and commendable topic, that has always been ignored by not only the Government of the day, but sometimes also by Members of this House. First of all, I want to commend the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security for having made a field tour to those areas of Isiolo and Samburu, and coming up with a report that is so comprehensive. I stand to support the adoption of this report because it not only indicates the problem that has been found to exist in Isiolo and Samburu, but also because it mirrors the bigger problem that is experienced in all the 32 districts in upper eastern and upper north rift; they experience this problem of cattle rustling. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have to realize that this problem of cattle rustling is not only a cultural problem. It is a big problem; it is an economic problem. So many lives have been lost. Livelihoods have been affected. To give you some statistics, 15 percent of the total number of districts in this country are affected by cattle rustling and related insecurity. Over 40 percent of the Kenyan land mass is the area that is affected by cattle rustling insecurity. Twenty percent of the total Kenyan population that resides in those areas are the people who face the daily problems and"
}