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    "id": 1340509,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "10 years of the Jubilee Government, over 1,200 elderly women, youths and mature men have been abducted in this country and we do not know where they are. One of the very first pronouncements that the President made when he was elected into office was that there would never be any more abductions of Kenyans, and that we would stick to the law and any suspect would be dealt with through the legal process. It was a good and welcome Statement. We enjoyed that relatively well. However, in the last couple of weeks, that problem has come back again. To some extent, the people who are fighting the Al-Shabaab… I know of a man who has created a militia in my constituency to fight the Al-Shabaab. He has been told by the police to go and record a statement with them. I am wondering whether our security machinery is working with the Al-Shabaab or they are working against the Al-Shabaab. The Government must take this matter very serious. We cannot be pretending to fight the terrorist there when we are aiding the terrorists and fighting the people who are fighting the terrorists. So, the Government, through the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, needs to sit down with us and make sure they are doing the right things. We know how to deal with them. In my constituency, there is no single Al-Shabaab because I have a militia there that takes care of them and kills them every day. I do not need the security machinery because the conventional Government security machinery has not dealt with Al-Shabaab . They cannot chase them on foot. Now that we are doing that by ourselves, we need to be given all the assistance by the Government. We have accepted that we will take this challenge ourselves by moving there and making sure that we eliminate these people. The Government has to support us. It does not have to support the other side."
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