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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "I assure the nation through this House, that every criminal holding firearms illegally must surrender them. They either surrender the firearm or we will take it by all means possible. Therefore, we will have a disarmament and de-radicalisation plan. This is because just like terrorism, banditry and cattle rustling have now assumed some radical ideological leanings, where the people doing it are no longer doing it for culture or money. It is beyond enterprise and culture. Increasingly, there is an ideology by those criminals, that you can harass the public, take their property, kill and terrorize and look important. I assure the people of Kenya that we will defeat bandits. I do not know how long it will take, but we will defeat them. Banditry will be part of Kenyan history. If we were to continue to allow what was happening by the time the Kenya Kwanza administration came to office and a few months after, we would have had serious security agencies. We feared that even international terrorist networks would have infiltrated some of these groupings and complicated matters. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are investing in long-term rejuvenation of the region which is affected by social amenities and public infrastructure. We are negotiating with our counterparts in the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation; Ministry of Roads and Transport; and the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to give those areas an enhanced quota and package of development projects that are being launched, planned or funded. Such projects include water, schools and hospitals. This is for security reasons. If this is done, then it will open up Northern Kenya, including Samburu; and make sure that these places are also empowered. I keep on saying that the future of Kenya is in the north. There is land, resources and potential for investment. If we can silence the guns and make them safe places, the future of Kenya, 100 or 200 years from now, is in the north of our country. I have looked at case studies of different countries. I believe the future of this country is in almost three-quarters of our country that is facing insecurity. If we sort our security, that is where the future economic strength of our country will be. In the same way, California, in the middle of a desert, is today the backbone of the American economy. We have many other countries, including Australia, where desert territories have been turned into economic anchors."
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