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62Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Masaai, Kisii, Turkana intas bo xuthuth bey fadiyan kenya.Translator: the other communities like the Maasais, the Kurias, the Luos, the Kisiis, who border international boundary, andthey are neighbouring other states,Mohamed Ibraham Omar: inta ayatha eh walaloxoth wey usoguthban weyna uimathan.Translator: Those people, their brothers come from those sides and they come to Kenya.Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Af ey iskulaxathana wa isla afko.Translator: they speak the same language,Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Anaga thugag thurka kujiro maaxa nologadiye oo waraq goni nolasiyey.Translator: why should we be discriminated from these other Kenyans? If others are coming, why not us? Why should we bedifferent?Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Wan kaxunaxay tas ayatha eh wexey natusineyna rer kenya mannixin.Translator: We are very bitter about the issue and unless the Government takes legal action and stops this, then we have allthe reasons to say that we are not Kenyans.Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Intas yan ogabaxaya.Translator: I’m leaving thatMohamed Ibraham Omar: Waxan rabna carurtena ini iskulka ila university ey dhowlada kabixiso.Translator: As the parents of North Eastern Province, we would prefer the Government or the new Constitution to give usfree education from primary to university.Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Sas markan lenaxay dulka an jogno xola kudaqath an naxayna dhowlada suq oo xolaxena iyowixi kasobaxawa na kugathano ey noxesho sithi bunka iyo qaxwath logathanayo okale xathan uxelno waxba kamarathsaneyno.Translator: I’m saying so, because we people are pastoralists, we rear livestock and there is no market for our livestock. Ifonly the Government would have instituted institutions like Kenya Coffee Board, Kenya Tea Development Authority, ormarketing boards, then we would not have gone for free education. We would have paid our fees.Mohamed Ibraham Omar: Xatha waxa catheyni market maxaisano xolixina nefkan cuno maaxane kikaley awar ba thisha.Translator: Through this, we have no market for our livestock and the livestock that we have is the one that we eat. And thenthey are killed by drought because there is no market.