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    "id": 1202311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hussein Weytan",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. May I take this opportunity to, first and foremost, thank the people of Mandera East for electing me and having faith in me. I thank the Almighty Allah Subhanahu wata'ala for giving me health and this opportunity to be in this august House. May I also take this opportunity to congratulate you and the Speaker of this honourable House. I came from the furthest place from this Parliament; that is Mandera. I come from Border Point One, where Kenya’s first beacon is. Mandera has a lot of problems, including insecurity, poor roads and lack of essential commodities. This is a place where we lost two senior chiefs and two assistant chiefs within a span of few months through terror activities. Two chiefs were killed on the Arabia-Mandera Road. The two Senior Chiefs of Arabia and Omar Jillaow were killed by Al Shabaab just a few months before the election. The two Assistant Chiefs were also killed just a few months before the election. This is as a result of the poor roads in Mandera. In the 21st Century we have no tarmac road in Mandera East other than Mandera Town which was started after devolution. That has really helped the terror team to plant Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) on the roads. When we were campaigning, we could not move freely for fear of the IEDs. You can easily be blown up any time. Sometimes we were forced to use helicopters to campaign within our constituency. I therefore request this honourable House to assist us in pushing the Government to tarmac the Lafey-Arabia-Mandera Road and the Rhamu-Khalalio-Mandera road within the shortest time possible because one life is more expensive than billions of shillings that can be used to tarmac those roads. In Mandera, we have Kenya Police Reservists (KPR) and National Police Reservists (NPR) who normally man our borders in addition to our gallant forces. These KPRs and NPRs The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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