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    "id": 1216134,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abass",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13587,
        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, it is high time that we took action as a country. We should not be allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry in this country. We must be able to know who is who in this country. We must be able to control the flow of arms in this country. We know that we have porous borders, but whatever it is, we have enough resources, and men and women who can handle these people. Unfortunately, we have a lot of laxity within our forces and systems. Small arms are readily available. Some of them have found their way here and they are being used to kill and rob Kenyans. The Government has tried its best to disarm people. Nonetheless, the number of arms that have been recovered by the military in West Pokot, Turkana and all those places, is not worth the kind of resources that we are using. The best thing is to register the illegal arms so that those people who are having problems of conflicts and are being killed, can fight and repulse those criminals on their own. Our military men are in vehicles yet the terrain is too rough. The area is too wide and the boundaries are porous. We cannot afford to sustain our army men, women and police to go and man such areas, which have porous borders. Finally, I urge our officers and all the leaders in the security, to come up with a better plan. The best plan is to engage the same communities that are causing these problems. If we create dialogue, things will be better. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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