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    "id": 92602,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands, you will see the neglect in the budget line that they are giving us. This was just to appease us and a public relations exercise to show that they had given us a Ministry to take care of northern Kenya. If the Ministry is not well funded, how will it take care of cattle-rustling, water shortages and the wanton education negligence in this area? People are said to go for cattle rustling because that is the only “education sector” they try to be in. If the only education such a person has seen is to be a moran, then why would you castigate him for practising what he thinks he has rightfully and skillfully acquired? It is up to the Government to convince them that there is formal education through which such a person can be a doctor, a military officer, et cetera . However, that has not been done. So, the Government should take developing those areas, which are prone to cattle rustling, quite seriously. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second aspect is the talk about disarmament. Although we recommend that disarmament should be done, even if you disarm those communities today, they will buy new guns tomorrow morning, because it is not fancy to have and carry illegal weapons. They just carry weapons, which they have to hide every other minute, because of survival. They are forced to carry weapons because the Government has not reinforced and provided adequate security. I would want to thank the people of Bura because they respect calm. I have urged for peaceful co-existence since the time I came to Parliament. I convinced the people of Bura to surrender guns to the Government, and this led to the surrender of about 60 guns to the Government; this led to the pledge that it was going to beef up security in that area and even provide the Kenya Police Reservists (KPR), but the Government has not lived to the expectation of the people. What would prevent the people of Bura from going across the border to buy guns, if they feel threatened? The fact that we have to disarm communities has to be accompanied by the Government’s adequate provision of security. If that is not done, disarmament will be done every other day, and people will purchase guns the following morning. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my third point is about communal punishment. You go and punish a community because you think that it is the community that went and raided the other community. In essence, you end up punishing a widow and confiscate the cattle of a peasant, people who have only that cattle as their means of livelihood. The Government punishes communities because it fails in the provision of security. Because the Government failed to provide security, communities were raided. Because of the utter neglect and failure by the Government to provide security to communities, the Government transfers guilt from itself to the communities. The Government should not transfer guilt to the communities. It is because of the same Government’s failure to provide security that people were raided. Therefore, the Government is supposed to compensate the communities who were raided, but not to go and raid other communities. With those remarks, I support the recommendations."
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