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    "id": 945303,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Reading this Statement, a person gets a bad impression about the status of security in Samburu. As Sen. (Dr.) Zani mentioned, in Samburu, West Pokot, and parts of Baringo, where Sen. Moi, comes from, cattle rustling has become a game of polo where people steal, kill and it is business as usual. The statistics that are here are troubling. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it appears, like Thomas Hobbes used to say life in Samburu has become nasty, brutish and short. For example, cattle rustlers kill two people and steal 600 herds of cattle, et cetera . Sen. Murkomen addressed the issue of picking arms from police reservists and others. However, the solution should be that cattle rustling must be a capital offence. I think that is the only way, so that people can stop making it a sport, that one can steal cattle and then kill people. Maybe that way, we can help. However, if the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations should find a solution because the killings have been going on - according to the Statement of Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe - for a year-and-a-half. It is going on randomly. It is the same thing that was happening in Kitui. It appears the death of a camel and a Kenyan is treated in the same way. In Samburu, the death of a goat, a camel and a human being are treated in the same way. Something is wrong with this country the way it takes the lives of people so casually. We support you, but we ask the Committee to find a good method of resolving this. I saw the leaders of Kitui County going to visit the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government and afterwards, for some strange reason, the insecurity stopped. Perhaps, that is one of the solutions, but there needs to be a permanent solution to loss of lives---"
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