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    "id": 131187,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/131187/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that there are SPLA soldiers present in parts of Kenyan territory. Their presence at Nadapal is a temporary situation which is a product of security arrangements that existed after the breakout of civil war in Sudan in 1983. The war caused a major human crisis in Southern Sudan which led to a UN sponsored emergency relief programme; the UN Operations Lifeline Sudan that was based at Lokichiggio. Under this arrangement, SPLA was allowed to maintain a temporary presence to escort emergency relief convoys going to Southern Sudan. This did not in any way amount to occupation of Kenyan Territory. On 30th July, 2009, while on his way to Nadapal border post to inaugurate construction of a border control facility, the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons, Mr. Otieno Kajwang, in the company of the Minister for Labour, Mr. Munyes, were stopped by SPLA soldiers. They not only stopped the Ministers but also threatened them. The SPLA soldiers cocked their weapons and aimed at the Kenyan team but they did not fire any shot, so nobody was injured."
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