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    "id": 1121021,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1121021/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, I might even use one minute. Thank you, for allowing us to contribute on the issue of insecurity in Northern Kenya. I thank Sen. Iman for bringing up this issue. We have spoken to it, but it does not seem to get the attention of the right people. The lives of people in Northern Kenya; Marsabit, Samburu and Isiolo, are worse than that of a housefly. People are killed every single day and we have become scoopers of bodies. It seems to be normal. In fact, death of people in Northern Kenya as a result of conflict does not even sound like death anymore. It seems like a natural occurrence. The death of people from Northern Kenya; Isiolo, Marsabit, Samburu, Garissa, Mandera and Wajir has been normalized, even by us, and that is wrong. For a long time, the residents of those counties have considered themselves as second class citizens. We feel it even more now right now because we watch it on television. The Northern Kenya residents scoop bodies and our number one expenditure is burial of the dead. We also spend on security and the leaders have to spend money on scooping of bodies. That cannot go on. Are the residents of Northern Kenya human beings or are we less human? Are we not Kenyans? What is going on? Why is it that there is death every single day, destruction and fight by bandits? What stops our security forces and agencies from dealing with this conflict once and for all? It is that those lives are worth nothing?"
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