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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muite",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Kibugi Muite",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one notices that as far as our foreign policy is concerned, particularly on the issue of terrorism, Kenya appears to go co-toying on the interest of the Bush administration. We do whatever the Bush administration wants done! It is true that nobody supports terrorism. No Kenyan supports terrorism. If there is any Kenyan arrested participating in, or supporting terrorism, let him or her go for the high jump. No one is supporting terrorism. However, I am attacking the ingredients of our policy as far as terrorism is concerned which impacts negatively on us, as a country. It makes us vulnerable to attacks. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you were to carry out a test in this country, you do not need rocket science, to know that our priority as a country is insecurity; carjackings mugging, robberies and house breaking. That is our priority number one. It is not terrorism! The priority number one for the Bush administration is terrorism. Why do we tailor our foreign policy as if terrorism was our priority number one? Why are we adopting the priority of other countries and nations and making them ours when, indeed, they are not? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another example, look at the Horn of Africa; Somalia, Somaliland and Djibouti, has the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sat down and developed a position for the Kenya Government to adopt that puts the interest in our priorities as Kenya first? I was in Hageizer and you will find that you are not going to unlock peace in the Horn of Africa unless you address the issue of Somaliland. Somaliland is the former British Somaliland. That country got its independence before the former Italian Somaliland got her independence. It got her independence even before the former French Somaliland, which is now Djibouti, got her independence. So, it was Somaliland that requested to join the former Italian Somaliland. It was an independent country with internationally accepted boundaries. That country, at one time during the colonial times, used to be administered jointly with Kenya. In fact, the Kenya shilling was the currency in the former British Somaliland. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, they have been on their own for a long time. They have been crying--- Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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