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    "id": 1400982,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "As the President said, we are not doing very well. We must deal with the 15 per cent. We have a number of strategies that the Ministry of Interior and National Administration under Hon. (Prof.) Kithure Kindiki is putting in place in the next two months. If that will not work, I want to assure the Senate Majority Leader that Article 241 (3) (c) will be invoked, the way we did it in Mt. Elgon many years ago; we will go to that region. I state categorically and decisively that in this administration, banditry will be a thing of the past. President William Ruto committed to this in his speech and in our manifesto. I ask leaders from those counties that it cannot be business as usual. They need to work with us. We are now treating these bandits the way we treat Al-Shabaab in our dealings with them along the border of Kenya and Somalia. Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, my senior, who inducted me to the Legislature many years ago, I thank you. We did a very good job in Kisumu. The shipyard is our flagship defence project and it is doing very well. I want to thank Major General Otieno and his team for a good job done. We have now become a leader in shipbuilding in East and Central African Region and the whole of Africa. We are doing some work now at Mbita in Homa Bay. We are working with Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) and Kenya Shipyard Limited (KSL) under the Ministry of Defence, but the problem is resources. The traffic between Kenya and Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda and Kenya and Tanzania is picking up. We want to bring back the Independence Day of the first Government, where the lake was a very critical infrastructure in the movement of goods and services. We need to save our roads from these big trucks carrying fuel. One of the ships that KSL has built carries about 16 million litres, which can move within 11 hours across the lake. This is better than trucks, which damage the road and cause accidents. We are doing a lot of work in the lake region. I take this opportunity to brief Sen. (Dr.) Oburu and the leadership of that region. Sen. Shakila Abdalla, there are certain roads we have earmarked as security roads within Lamu and the North. We have even created a budget and said that the KDF is going to take charge of those. I have airstrips for our own operations and security roads. I agree with you, we will put these roads to murram standard. That will even help us in preventing terrorists not to use their weapon of choice, which is Improvised Explosive Devices (IED). Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the entire leadership of Lamu County. Since we met, they are working with us and we have reduced the incidence of terror. Our team plus the Ministry of Interior and National Administration team and the National Police Service (NPS) have now secured the Lamu enclave. We are making sure that we destroy even the terrorist infrastructure, not only in Kenya, but in their home base in Somalia where they hide. I am sure. We do not say it a lot, but the country has been fairly very peaceful. We have secured Nairobi and all other cities from any acts of terror. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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