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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Fafi, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Yakub",
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    "content": "activities in the area. The team had been vetted by Bura East Sub-county Security Intelligence Committee (SCSIC) in October 2022 and recommended for recruitment as NPRs. Numerous appeals to the Government to beef up security by deploying additional officers and recruiting more national police reservists have not been successful. Schools and hospitals have been closed as roads remain impassable due to insecurity. The situation is worse in rural and border villages including Yumbis, Harbod, Dagega, Degbon and Dekaharia. Owing to the growing insecurity in the constituency, I cannot freely move around to undertake development activities as I am also a target of the militants due to my denouncement of their actions. Additionally, local administrators in border towns fear for their lives and, as such, stay away from their areas of jurisdiction in the villages opting to stay in major towns. Sadly, the few police reservists that were manning the constituency have been served with discharge letters after leaving the area exposed. It is against this background that I seek a statement from the Chairperson of the Department Committee on Administration and Internal Security on the following: 1. Reasons as to why the Government is downscaling security levels by discharging sixteen national police reservists in Bura East Sub-County from duty on 6th August 2024, instead of beefing up security in the area; 2. Reasons as to why the 17 national police reservists (NPR) locals who had volunteered to work with SOG and other security agencies to eliminate AlShabaab activities in the area have not been armed and yet, they are remunerated and embedded within the Government security agencies; 3. Specific actions being taken by the Government to enhance security in Fafi Constituency, considering the minimal allocation of national police reservists (NPR), the limited administrative and divisional infrastructure, and the scarcity of SOG camps; and, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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