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"content": "Let me also bring to the attention of this House that pastoralism is a way of life. A pastoralist is vulnerable, whereby if there is drought in one year, all his livelihood can be wiped out. Those people do not need an extra burden because they already have enough to deal with. It is unfair for an institution of Government to bring more suffering and undue problems to the pastoralists. Mr. Speaker, Sir, pastoralists, just like everybody else in this country, also have rights including the right to their communal land. If the Government wants to take that land, they should give these people alternative land to graze their livestock. Failure to which, they should also be compensated to enable them eke livelihoods elsewhere. I think this issue needs a quick resolution and this House should not take it lightly. We should be counted as a House that defends the people who are defenseless. Thank you."
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