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    "id": 1359379,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kithure Kindiki",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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        "legal_name": "Kithure Kindiki",
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    "content": "Therefore, the operation in the Boni Forest is doing well. The last review of that operation was yesterday. I spent the whole day in Lamu. I sat with all the commanders in the National Police Service (NPS) and the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF). I must also commend the working relationship between our officers from the organs of internal security and those of our national defence. They are working seamlessly and patriotically. They need our support and applause. That operation is effective but we keep improving every day so that we defeat this enemy. About a month ago, we published a list of the 36 most wanted suspects of terror in the Boni Forest enclave. That number has since reduced to 31. We have already gotten hold of some of them. That is the good news. Unfortunately, we cannot talk about it all the time. We are still looking for the others, and we will get them. We will get them in our country. If we cannot track them in our country, we will pursue them outside our country and deal with them from there. In the past four weeks, four of the terrorists have had their dates with justice. Finally, I have been asked to clarify whether the terror attacks are as a result of external aggression from neighbouring countries advancing an international ideology or whether they are locally brewed. The answer is that for someone to come from a foreign country and walk into a village and hurt our people, they must have been assisted by a Kenyan along the way. I do not know who that Kenyan is. They must have bought some food somewhere. They must have asked for directions to get somewhere. Many of these terror operations operate on foot. Therefore, whether or not the threat is coming from outside or from inside, the answer is neither here nor there. The answer is that the problem is both external and internal. Until we become a patriotic country such that we do not give away our country for whatever benefit, we have a journey to travel. Hon. Speaker, as I end on this question, I would like to plead with all of us to remove politics, religion and all the other affiliations and connections from terror and treat terrorism as the greatest insecurity threat we have in our country. The damage that terror can do to a country is vast. A terrorist only needs to succeed once. You can stop him a thousand times but he just needs to succeed once to hurt us enough. Please, let us remove politics, religion and ethnicity and face terrorists as enemies of our country, whether they are from outside or they are local aiders and abettors of the crime. I submit."
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