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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will try to be brief. First and foremost, I want to thank my good friend, the Chair of this Committee, who knows what it means to be inside a prison cell, for going out of his way to look at the issues in Isiolo and Samburu in particular. The issue of cattle rustling requires more than a Departmental Report. It requires Government commitment to what obtains in northern Kenya in particular. This has serious impact on our international borders. This matter requires a regional approach. The Departmental Committee has actually recommended that unless you deal with issues of cattle rustling in this part of the country in terms of the IGAD framework, then we shall be exposing our people to genocide. I could not agree more with the previous speaker that the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security is engaged in a PR exercise. Fortunately for me, I have the liberty of not being confused with any pretence to the Cabinet. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the PR exercise we are talking about is on disarmament. The Government says that it is disarming people. Only two days ago, I lost 10 people in a place called Muguru. Where did the bandits get their guns from if the Government is purporting to disarm the people? These are the basic questions that you cannot refuse hon. Members, whether in Cabinet or otherwise, to speak freely and confidently about. First and foremost, we represent the people of Kenya who brought us to this House. If we are going to be cowed to speak here because of some non-existent flags, we beg to differ. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, some recommendations have been made by the Departmental Committee and to me, they should be basic. If you look at recommendation number 13, it states thus: “The Government ought to compensate the Samburu Community for the 4,115 cattle netted.” When you have a Government that decides to become another thief so that it takes livestock which is the livelihood and property of the people and yet the whole basis of having a Government is to protect lives and livelihoods--- Now, they want to outdo the bandits and the thieves by taking away 4,115 heads of cattle from peasant Samburus."
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