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    "speaker_name": "Daadab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also wish to weigh in on this issue which is very close to our hearts. Those of us who come from north eastern Kenya and the districts of Lamu and Tana River know the problem. As a matter of fact, my two very good young men here - I should call them my sons because they are all young except the first one, who is older than my son, Hon. Yakub and Hon. Ali of Ijara - have a very tough task right now. Just navigating through their constituencies to give attention to their constituents and see how they can deliver development, they literally have to go with a convoy of security men and women. I am very happy I have heard Hon. Sigei. He was a District Commissioner in Garissa when we were going through similar problems many years back, in the 1990s. We did a fantastic job there. The manner in which you deal with these people has got to be very specialised. Colonel Raso will tell you that. You do not use a conventional force where you say bring a backup of forces. This is not about numbers. These people move in small groups of four, five or six men and carry out these terrorist acts. They do not move in their thousands. They do not face military forces in a frontal attack. When they realise that our soldiers are approaching their positions, they hide. The best way to deal with them - I want my colleagues to support me on this one - is for us, first of all, to create our own macawisley, which is our own KPR. The KPR is in a position to attack and smoke them out of wherever they go. Right now, in my constituency there is nobody there. Hon. Yakub will tell you that there is nobody there. There is no single"
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