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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is a very weighty and saddening situation whereby, one, an international foreign State enters Kenya’s sovereign territory without being challenged and gets away with it. Two, the reason it gets away with it is that there is a violation of Article Six of the Constitution by the national Government where it is required to have its presence all over the country. The area Senator Chute is talking about suffers from a deficiency of the Kenyan State. There is no Kenyan State on the ground. That is why the Ethiopian military can come across and play poker with our lives. Therefore, there is a need. This is a condemnation of the Government that it has failed to provide its presence on the ground to deter the Ethiopian State from whatever enterprise there is. I support what was said that this matter should have escalated to the diplomatic circles to try and have the responsible Governments get a hand on to the issue. Coming back internally on the question of the so-called bandits, I support the proposal by Sen. Cherarkey, that these are terrorists that need to be covered under the Terrorism Act. This is because the big problem we have had with dealing with this menace is the mischaracterization of crime. As long as we characterize it as a cultural enterprise, it will not die. Let us call it by the correct name of terrorism or even robbery with violence, and let the might of the State be brought to bear upon these people. Further, the monopoly of violence must be with the Kenyan State. We cannot sit here to be mocked by stories that some do-no-good, has taken over a school, which is a State institution. The Government must use all means possible to deal with these people. Further, I recommend that when these people are apprehended, they should not be put through the civilian courts. They should be subjected to Court Martial to be tried by the military because they are armed combatants. They are militaries and armies. We cannot put them through civilian trials. When they pick up those guns, they do not go to play guitars, they go to war. They are not entertaining anybody. They are going to kill. Their purpose is to kill. So, for heaven's sake, let them be subjected to Court Martials wherever they are found."
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