Robinson Njeru Githae

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: But today, they are using modern guns like AK47, bazookas and so on. In the past they were using traditional weapons like bows and arrows. Even if there were cattle rustling raids, nobody would be killed or injured. Today, when there is a raid, there is mayhem, killings, injuries and even rape. In the traditional sense, there could never be rape, killing, or injuring because that was not the purpose. Today, all those things are happening. That is why we must condemn cattle rustling in the strongest possible terms. We must eradicate cattle rustling. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Today, some abominable things are being done. In the traditional sense, women were never killed. At best, you could take them and make them your wives. These days, they are killed. Children view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: 4292 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES January 21, 2009 view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: were never killed or injured, but today if there is a raid, women and children are killed. Traditionally, you could take children to go and enlarge your family but not to kill them. That is why we must condemn cattle rustling today and say that, that has been overtaken by events. We must do all that we can to eradicate it. If it requires a Parliamentary Select Committee to do that, then let us have it. If it requires a Parliamentary Select Committee to know the leaders of cattle rustling, then let us have it. In the modern world, we ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, today cattle rustling is a business. It has been commercialised. It is a business done by cattle rustlers. When they raid and steal cattle, those head of cattle end up in Dagoretti slaughterhouse for sale and slaughter. They also end up in other markets like Emali. So, we must eradicate it because it is a commercial undertaking. It has even now moved from being a commercial undertaking to a cartel. That cartel involves very senior people, even in the Government. When they are planning to go on a raid, the police are not involved, and ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, cattle rustling is now causing insecurity, because when your cattle are stolen, there is counter attack. Therefore, it is a vicious circle. Your cattle is stolen today and the following month you organise a raid to go and try to get them back. That is causing a lot of insecurity. Initially, you could never get a Maasai stealing the cattle of another Maasai, but today it is happening. That means that even the traditional safe-guards are not there. When in the pastoralist communities in North Eastern Province cattle is stolen from a certain clan the ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, eradication is very easy. If the Government were to buy four helicopter to be on standby, when cattle is reported stolen, within one hour the police would make a follow up and recover them. If that continued until the practice was made commercially unviable, then cattle rustling would end. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, we have the Anti-Stock Theft Unit of the Kenya Police but if they do not have vehicles and modern communication gadgets, then they are useless. You have to walk on foot to report to them and by the time they mobilise themselves, it takes more than three days after the crime has occurred and, therefore, no cattle is recovered. Surprisingly, these cattle disappear. After some time we are told that no cattle was recovered. How can cattle disappear from the ground? In some cases, we are told that some cattle were recovered but they ... view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: With those words, I support the Motion. view
• 21 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is clear that hon. Jirongo's Motion to amend has not been seconded. There is no Seconder and, therefore, we should go back to the original Motion containing the original names! There was no Seconder. Everybody refused to second the proposal for amendment! view