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    "id": 1291211,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1291211/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Defence",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, we are devolving KDF bases from our historical positions. We now have two sites in West Pokot County and four in Turkana County. We are also in Marsabit and Mandera counties. We are building more bases and more training bases mainly along our boarder as part of protecting the territorial integrity of our country. For the first time at the Lodwar Airstrip, we have a forward operating base being operated by our Kenya Air Force (KAF). The KAF is already in Lodwar, Turkana County. We are building a big base there. I thank the former and current governors of Turkana for availing the land. We also have three more bases in Turkana because it is a vast county. Madam Temporary Speaker, we have learnt from cattle rustling and banditry in North Rift that Tiaty, Baringo, West Pokot and Turkana have enough land for even training. We might shift the training bases of the KDF and the police closer to that terrain because it good for training. Lamu is now under operation. However, I do not want to speak about it in the Plenary. The Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations could invite me in- camera . I was not ready for this question. I had also informed the National Assembly Chairperson of the Committee on Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Relations that I can only speak about Lamu and our war with Al-Shabaab in-camera."
}