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    "id": 1340506,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dekow Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to bring to the attention of the House that, maybe, most Members from other parts of the country do not appreciate the magnitude of the Statement given by Hon. Abdi Ali from Ijara and last week’s Statement by Hon. Yakub from Bura Constituency. The issues raised by the two Members are very rampant in our area. We are facing a very difficult situation. We are targets of Al-Shabaab, who are now terrorising our communities in the region. It also looks like the police have also turned into terrorists. We are intimidated and we feel that the footprints of these abductions squarely lie with the security agencies in the area. We have too many units of security forces with different names operating in that region. We do not know who to address on the ground. I am asking this House and the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government to take this matter seriously. We are being forced, as a community or a region… In the situation we are in, we do not know whether to side with the other side, the Government or our people. During the last election campaigns, the President was very clear on the issue of extra-judicial killings and abduction of people from their houses. We were promised that this will be stopped. The pain that such families feel over the years still continues. It seems that this problem is coming back. I ask the House and the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government to take this matter very seriously."
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