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    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, I congratulate the Committee led by my friend, Hon. Chepkonga, for bringing this Motion on the Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Suppression of Terrorism. Hon. Temporary Speaker, terrorism has neither boundaries, colour, religion, age or class. It is the mere fact of terrorism. It is bad in whatever form it is. Kenya has suffered because of it. The unfortunate thing is that terrorism emerged from certain parts of the world. As it continues, terrorism has taken different faces. This resolution is coming at the right time because Kenya is now required to take some responsibility on how to deal with terrorism without over relying on other countries that are signatories to the convention. This regulation is proposing a committee, which I think is one of the things that has been lacking in matters of dealing with terrorism. The new face of terrorism is that it has institutions. It has persons, networks and cartels. There are even applications of various technologies like cyber terrorism. By domesticating the matters to deal with terrorism, Kenya will basically now be homegrown in terms of its approach to dealing with the menace of terrorism. We should not wait anymore. The more we spend time on matters of dealing with terrorism, the more we are giving freedom to our terrorists to operate in our state. We need to be proactive all the time. It will call upon physical confrontation of terrorism. It will require a network, putting up many technologies, various research and other activities that are geared towards addressing this menace. I, therefore, would say that this has come at the right time. I urge Members that we need to vote for ratification so that we can domesticate our operations in dealing with terrorism. If we ratify this resolution, it will mean that we will be able to share a lot of information with other parts of the world. We will be giving what is actually happening in terms of terrorism in our country. It will even be very easy to seek for financial support and expertise from other members. It is very important as Members to pass this requirement through the statutory address which this Committee has brought forth. With those few remarks, I support the ratification and urge the Members to pass it so that we can be part of this convention. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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