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    "id": 1294806,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1294806/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "terrorist organization led by Osama Bin Laden, who is now dead. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, since the 1998 US Embassy attack, approximately 500 lives have been lost through terror attacks in the country. This includes 213 fatalities (201 Kenyans and 12 Americans) of the 1998 attack; 67 people who died at the attack at West Gate Mall in 2014; the Garissa University attack in 2015 that led to the death of 148 persons, and the Dusit attack in 2019 in Nairobi that led to the death of 21 civilians and five suicide attackers. The other numbers are a collection of various civilians and members of the National Police Service and the Kenya Defence Forces who have died as a result of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) attacks in the war against terror in North Eastern Kenya and Lamu County. The following measures have been put in place to boost counter-terrorism efforts and safeguard the lives and property of Kenya citizens - (1) Establishment of specialized units including: (a) Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU), which continues to do a fantastic job in thwarting the threats of terror on a continuous basis. There is the National Counter Terrorism Centre for research, identification of terror threats and dealing with radicalization, which is the main recipe for terrorist and the breeding of terror. We also have the Joint Terrorism Task Force and Robust Financial Reporting Centre, whose mandate is to track inflows and outflows of financial resources into our financial system. This has helped us detect finances destined to the financing of terrorism. We have apprehended some of those resources. There is also the Modern Coastguard under the Kenya Coastguard Services Act of 2015. Therefore, the Coastguard is helping us guard the Kenya territorial waters, especially the internal waters. They help us watch terror, which is transported by sea. There is the Trans National Organized Crime Unit at the DCI and Asset Recovery Agency. Resources frozen on suspicion of being destined to finance terror are seized and forfeited to the Asset Recovery Agency. (b) Establishment of Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluating System (PISCES) in immigration services, which has worked well. We are in the process of upgrading the PISCES with the modern Advanced Passenger Information (API)/Passenger Name Record system, including other upgrading that we want to do at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and other main points of entry to ensure that we"
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