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    "id": 927427,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927427/?format=api",
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    "speaker_name": "Turkana CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Joyce Emanikor",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joyce Akai Emanikor",
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    "content": "Cattle rustling, as a crime, has been underrated, understated, underemphasised and trivialised as a practice by pastoralists who have nothing to do and have warlike tendencies. We want to tell Kenyans and the Government that cattle rustling is not just about stealing cows. It is also not about returning stolen cows. It is not the literal interpretation of the phrase. It involves destruction of property and mass murder. It is a crime against humanity and human dignity. It involves murder, rape and displacement of populations. It is an outrageous injustice. It is a violation of human rights. It is about kidnapping and abductions. We have lost children who, up to now, we do not know where they went to. They have been taken as slaves. These are inhuman acts that cause untold suffering and destitution to the victims. Many widows and orphans have been left. Rustlers are just criminals like any other in Nairobi or in any other city in Kenya. They are gangsters. They are robbers and thugs. Thugs should be treated with the same seriousness that criminals in the city are treated. We hear of police in towns combatting crime, gunning down gangsters and chasing robbers even to their hideouts. How we long that this could happen in Turkana, Samburu, Baringo, Laikipia and in all the places that these atrocities are happening. How we long that the inciters, promoters, financiers and organisers who are known to be supporting this evil, barbaric act are apprehended because the Government knows them. Some of them are in high places. They are leaders. The Government keeps telling us that it knows them and their network, and that it will pursue them, or that it is just about to apprehend them. What is the Government waiting for? Is the Government waiting for a revolution or serious anarchy for it to act? How we long for the Government to invest the kind of money that is being invested - billions of shillings - in projects like the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) and training other security people in stopping these serious acts. The NPR disarmament was skewed and politicised. We believe that it is a conspiracy between the Government and some politicians who know the benefits they get from the activities. We castigate that. I keep wondering whether we are in Kenya and whether I am a Kenyan. I know Matiang’i and Mutyambai have the capacity to stop this menace. They did it in Mt. Elgon and have done it elsewhere. They can do it because we demand the services that we have a right to. We demand the education that we are being denied. We demand basic services such as water, food and shelter. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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