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    "id": 1400990,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1400990/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. Abass. I do not think we have any intentions to relocate from Wajir International Airport. To us, Wajir International Airport is like Laikipia Airbase. We have a lot of our own internal operations. We also carry out operations and logistics in our neighbourhood on the war against terror. We even work with our partners such as the Kenya Airport Authority (KAA) to allow the good people of Wajir access. We agreed that we will give them a designated section where the Ministry of Interior and National Administration, using the NPS, will man the checks. For now, people go through a lot of checks because they have to pass through our base. We have the Air Force FOB and other formations. Secondly, we are asking our partners to invest heavily in Wajir International Airport, just the way we want to invest in Manda Airbase. On the incident that happened, I apologise to the people of Wajir because it was not intentional. It was part of our training programmes. I assure the Senator that we sent an investigation team and they brought a report. It will never happen again. We thank the leadership of Wajir, including the Member of Parliament (MP), the Senator, the Governor and the Woman Representative for working closely with us, not only in the incident, but in the whole spectrum of security. I also thank all the leaders from Lamu, Tana River, Garissa, Wajir, Mandera and Marsabit. They have been valuable working with both the Ministry of Interior and National Administration and the KDF to make sure that we are all have a responsibility to keep our country safe."
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