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    "id": 92608,
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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Motion. I stand here to speak as a Member of the Select Committee investigating the root causes of cattle rustling in Kenya. While I thank the Chairman of this Select Committee and his team for bringing here this important Motion, I think we have to call a spade a spade. These problems thrive because of total lack of Government in those areas. We have been to areas where cattle-rustling is rampant, and what you see is a depressing situation. It is time that the people in charge of internal security knew that merely rushing to Wilson Airport and getting into a chopper when people have been killed in Isiolo is dealing with symptoms. That is not dealing with the causes of the problem. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we visited Cherengany and parts of Pokot in our fact-finding mission. What we saw was very depressing. We met a District Commissioner (DC), who told us very clearly: “I know that there are cattle rustlers in that forest but there is nothing I can do, because I do not have enough policemen. I do not even have a car to go and flush them out.” We met a DC who told us that he was aware that some of the cattle which were being stolen in Cherengany were sold at the border with Tanzania. You must ask yourself: “When cattle are loaded in Cherengany and transported all the way to Tanzania, are there no roadblocks on the way?” We must call a spade by its proper name. The Government, especially the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, is not doing its work in those areas."
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