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    "id": 16484,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason why we pay a colossal amount of money on the maintenance of that mission annually is because of the unique role that, that mission is expected to play. Of late, we have seen the resurgence of piracy. Piracy is a product of lawlessness, whatever name you call it. How has it affected the people of Kenya, businesses and the international community? Piracy, which started as a small fishing menace along the coastline of the international water of the Indian Ocean, has now grown to be an internationally organized crime. That has made the cost of doing business to rise up, the cost of insurance has sky-rocketed and even investment avenues have closed because one of the benchmarks that an investor looks for is the security situation of a particular area. Ships that ought to have used a shorter route to come to our coast now use a longer route. We must also applaud the initiative of the European Union under a programme called Al talata Operation. That initiative has the support of the international community and is based in the Indian Ocean. Due to their operations, piracy has greatly reduced. At this juncture, I want to encourage us to look at what the international community has done for countries like Somalia, Lybia and others with difficult security situations. The international community, through the United National Security Council, has moved with speed to establish a UN judicial mechanism to try those who have engaged in violations of human rights, including those who have raped, maimed, murdered or those behind human trafficking and abductions. That is why today, I want to call upon the UN, the Government of Kenya and other peaceful nations to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC) to move to Somalia and bring those suspects to justice. Otherwise, we will have failed as responsible members of the international community to address the unique peculiarity of the Somalia situation. If the international community could move with speed and have the Libyan, Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Rwanda security crises brought under control, why have they remained mum on the Somalia security crisis to the extent that neighbours like Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and others have been left to do that very difficult task on behalf of the international community. I want to urge the Government to pressurize the UN on the matter. That is because criminals have turned the war in Somalia into an enterprise. The criminals are not only in Somalia but also in Kenya and elsewhere. Those individuals must be dealt with decisively so that they do not benefit from the security situation afflicting the people of Somalia."
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