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    "id": 133232,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to begin by congratulating the Minister and Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security for a job well done. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the stability of any country depends on how best the internal security mechanism is secured. Therefore, this Ministry requires all the support, not only political, but also financial. I would like to say the very critical department that is in charge, particularly with the maintenance of law and order in this country, is our police force. I was surprised to hear from the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security that we give our police officers eight litres of fuel per day to fight crime. Some of this information is never known to the country. That is a scandal. It is very difficult for the job of the magnitude we expect from the police force to be done with a minimum of eight litres of fuel. There is need, therefore, for the Minister – even though I know that he is quite aware of this fact and has worked very hard – to see how best he can provide funding to this very important sector of the security of this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister because a few weeks ago we had a consultative meeting as Members of Parliament from North Eastern Province, in order to see how best to confront the security challenges in that region. One of the problems we have, of course, in North Eastern Province now is the spillover effect of the security crisis in Somalia. We have suggested to the Minister that this matter is not only a foreign policy engagement. It requires the efforts of the entire Government, particularly the Office of the President. You never leave a matter this critical to be treated as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs matter. Therefore, there is need to see whether we can, in fact, go the way the Ethiopians have done. We can, for instance, create a buffer zone between the areas that connect Kenya to Kismaiyu. The communities there can be spoken to and we see how best the Kenya Government can empower them. This is because if we empower them, then the effects of Al Shabab or any other threat that can be coming to"
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