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    "id": 1463833,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I represent one of the constituencies that are badly affected by the the so-called…Sory! Let me call it “bad manners” of our Ugandan neighbours. Hardly a week ends without reports of arrests. Actually, they are not even arrests. They are abductions. The Ugandans come all the way to the shores of Lake Victoria on the Kenyan side and forcefully abduct our fishermen so that they can be given Ksh30,000 that they crave for every single day for release. When they are asked why they do that, they say that the military and the police in Uganda are never paid any salary. They, therefore, suffer and that is why they come looking for little money. For us in Funyula, we have found a way of dealing with them. When they take our people, we also hold their people to ransom and we trade them off with ours. We want the two countries and Tanzania to have a discussion to put this matter to an end once and for all. Fish are a shared resource. We are a people with language, culture and traditions similar to theirs. I do not know why they keep on harrassing us. If they continue doing this we will also look for self-help measures so that we resolve this matter once and for all. Thank you."
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