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    "id": 1192416,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1192416/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyando, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jared Okello",
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    "content": " Alright Hon. Temporary Speaker. I do not know why the incessant disruptions. I think I am very logical in my presentation. Because you have said we should not talk about the number of soldiers we have sent and those who have since died in various wars, let me talk about the most critical aspect of this exercise and it relates to cost. On a daily basis, when you watch television you see nothing else but desperation, drought ravaging this country and people and livestock dying. We are losing so much. Our country has already made an appeal to several countries to help us cushion suffering Kenyans against the calamities. On the flip side, we have some money to take our soldiers somewhere in a war that this country has absolutely no role to play. Let us be prudent in the management of the little finances that we have. In fact, the Deputy President of this country said that they found only Ksh93 million at the National Treasury. Out of Ksh93 million, we have already sent soldiers abroad to go and fight in wars that we have absolutely no role in. We also understand that America, which is the super power, has since sent soldiers to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and many other countries. That has never solved the problems behind the discord in those countries. Therefore, we have to be very careful as a country even as we put our soldiers in harm’s way. I oppose a war that Kenya has no role in at all. We just heard about insecurity in Awendo and Nairobi and with bodaboda riders and many other places. This is an unjustified intervention in a country."
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