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    "id": 1264342,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Daadab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "terrorist in my constituency. We flashed them out. I spent my own resources to send those young men to track them on foot and tackle them. Just the other day, they tried to attack outside Hamay and you heard what happened to them. Four of them were gunned down. Let these young men get the same support and we put in resources into that effort. Let us pay KPRs better than we do now. The KPRs do not get paid anything. They get paid a paltry Ksh5,000 a month, and that amount does not come for six or seven months in a row. If we put a little bit of more resources into this effort by giving them a little more fire power and we follow them up with provisions of foodstuffs, bullets and the rest of such stuff, we can finish up this problem at a minimum cost. We can literally smoke out remnants of Al Shabaab from our homeland and get rid of them. You tell a young man who grew up in the lake or mountain regions, and trained at Kiganjo Police Training College as a police officer to track down such hardened criminals, you are sentencing such a young person to death. It is not fair at all for these young people to be sent after those hardened, seasoned, very crooked guys because they will just be ambushed and get killed. They set up IEDs everywhere they go. The IEDs have the capacity to be put underground. I almost lost my life when I was campaigning last time because there was an attempt on my life using IED. They hide in the bush and detonate the IEDs wherever vehicles carrying security personnel drive near the place where the bombs have been planted. However, if they are being chased on foot by people who know them, it will be much easier to tackle them. I do not know if we have a Pokot Member of Parliament in here. We could also do with a few members of the Pokot community in the security forces, the Turkana and some of the people who have had a similar situation like ours. We smoke them out and chase them away. Give me just a few more minutes. Those people know how to deal with the Al Shabaab menace. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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