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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "content": "Secondly, I want to commend the citizenry of the Republic of Kenya. We have invested heavily and paid dearly for the lawlessness, social, economic, political and cultural and religious crisis in Somalia. It is not the choice of the people of Somalia. That has happened because of poor leadership. So, as citizens, we must guard the nation against the same poor leadership in the Republic of Kenya. It is due to poor leadership, lack of institutional role and functions that today, for close to 20 years, our neighbours and brothers in Somalia have been in a permanent and perpetual political turmoil. One of the reasons why we have decided to open a mission is to lead from the front and show the international community that, notwithstanding the instability in Somalia, as a nation, we are duty-bound. That is why we have hosted many internationally driven peace initiatives. At this juncture, on behalf of the Committee and Parliament, I want to acknowledge the unique role played by one of us here, Mr. Affey. Mr. Affey was the first Ambassador to be posted to Somalia in the midst of that crisis and he single-handedly managed. Due to that initiative, other countries also followed suit. Even if they could not have a functioning diplomatic mission in Somalia, they have managed to have missions that were accredited to the Government of Somalia, but they were based elsewhere due to security reasons. Therefore, I want to commend Mr. Affey for the work he did. Our mission is located here. At that time, Mr. Affey was an ambassador but today, he is a Member of Parliament. Therefore, there is nobody amongst ourselves who has a better institutional memory than Mr. Affey. I want to thank him on behalf of the Committee."
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