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    "id": 182715,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdirahman",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion that is of great importance to this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, today, this particular problem of insecurity has turned into a national crisis as we speak. What is being reported by a number of my colleagues may be a very small thing compared to what is happening--- I am not under-estimating it. But I am saying that the insecurity problems have gone to a level that has been unprecedented in the past. I just want to pick some examples of what is happening, with the latest one in Mandera. I know that a number of efforts were made by the local leadership from the region, with the support from the Government. But that has not made much of a change. A number of issues that have come up, including the blockage of roads by militiamen who have taken control of those routes, is something that we cannot comprehend as we speak today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know very well that a curfew was imposed on Mandera last Thursday. That is something which is history; something which should not have been done in independent Kenya today. The Government should have other alternative options to restore peace and security in northern Kenya. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the truth of the matter is that, in most of the areas, particularly in northern Kenya, there is inadequate staffing of police officers, whether it is the regular or administration police officers. There is lack of equipment. You may find that distances that cover a minimum of 22,000 kilometres, like Wajir Town, do not have a single vehicle for a number of divisional police stations!"
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