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    "id": 1291235,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "You have rightly said it and that is why you see in Lamu and parts of Northern Kenya, they come in and walk in twos or three, put an IED and target our security forces and sometimes our citizens suffer. I want to assure this House and the country that under the leadership of the President and our Commander-in-Chief, the Ministry of Interior and the National Police Service have heavily invested through the support of the budget from Parliament in buying armoured vehicles; Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) that will protect our troops from the IEDs and to make sure that using our intelligence and other technologies we can easily find IEDs. In fact, now we can tell that there is an IED which has been planted on that road, pparticularly in the Lamu enclaves and then we tell our officers not to move in vehicles and to go and detonate that IED. Nonetheless, by December and January, under the support of the Commander-in- Chief and this administration, we are investing heavily both in interior and defence to make sure that we have the right equipment and arms for our security forces both inside and outside Somalia. There are two things that the Cabinet Secretary for Interior (Hon. (Prof.) Kindiki and I want to assure this House: That the Government will deal with all the criminals and banditry in the north rift. Yesterday the Cabinet approved the shared national security strategy for north rift where now apart from fighting the criminals, we want to invest in the social-economic development of those regions. We want to build schools, open up those areas, build dams and security sector under the implementation of the NSC. We will be there for the long haul. The problem with the successive Governments was that they were going there for two months and the leaders would call the former President saying, come out. However, no leader will ever call the Commander-in-Chief. Now I am sure the leaders are also very happy. About 85 per cent of the north rift is now pacified. We have only about 15 per cent. We want to remove the kinetic operation and deal with social-economic development of our people. They must be part and parcel of the Kenyan agenda. So, we are investing heavily in the modernization of our security forces, from intelligence to the police, to the other special groups and to the KDF."
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