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    "id": 1291217,
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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"
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also confirm that I have one of the best Senators. The people of Garissa and I, have full confidence in this Senator who replaced our father and elder who also sat in this House. May Allah take him to Jannah . Sen. Abdul Haji has asked a very fundamental question. We do it in our country and outside. I thank Parliament because it always allocates certain resources to the KDF for their civic duty. We are, therefore, involved in the construction of dams, building of boreholes and providing medical camps. We give out water during the drought season wherever our bases are located. The Senator will agree with me, especially in Garissa when we experienced drought recently that our bases gave water and the same applies to the areas in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) region. We also have an element we call key leadership engagement. The Senators for Garissa and Samburu counties will agree with me on this one. We still have key leadership engagements even in areas where we go for peace and security Madam Temporary Speaker, in Somalia, one of our operating bases is in a place called Dhobley. In the ATMIS and the KDF Twitter handle, you will find that we provide maternal healthcare and surgery in their biggest hospital. This week in those Twitter handles, you will find a lady being discharged in a wheelchair and who was in our hospital for about three months in Dhobley. That is what we do. We also provide water and health facilities. I visited one of our forward operating bases in Wajir with Members of Parliament (MPs) in our campaigns to communities to help us in the war against terror and the al Shabaab. The base commander told us that our forces there had adult men, but when communities go to them with paediatric cases or pregnant mothers, they have no medicine to treat them. Therefore, we made a deliberate policy at the KDF that we must provide all types of medicine wherever our doctors and nurses are, especially in the most remote parts of the country and inside Somalia. So that if we get a lactating mother, a pregnant woman or one who has complications in child bearing, the right medication is available."
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