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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we sent them away to give dialogue, peace and security an opportunity. It was at that time when the ICU emerged as a major force. Indeed, they have made Mogadishu fairly safe and habitable. I have visited it myself. However, what is worrying is the territorial expansion that they are undertaking and the hon. Member has mentioned this. That is why I have said our armed forces are on high alert in case this territorial expansion affects our peace and security. There is also a likelihood that the conflict in Somalia now is taking a dimension that may suck in a few neighbours to settle scores between themselves on Somalia soil. Kenya, as the chair of IGADD, is completely seized with this issue. The President, His Excellency Mwai Kibaki, as the chairman of IGADD, is in constant consultation with Heads of State of IGADD countries to ensure that the conflict in Somalia does not get out of hand. That is why we are encouraging the ICU to 3472 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 8, 2006 dialogue with the TFG. Indeed, only yesterday, I was able to personally speak to both the leadership of the TFG and ICU. They are ready and willing to come and sit in Nairobi to discuss and see how best to solve their problems. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the American issuance of advisories and alerts that the hon. Members has mentioned, our security agencies are dealing with that. As a government, we do not take such warnings lightly. The alert on Americans not to come to Kenya is nothing new. They have been doing it for the last ten, or more, years. We have constantly raised our concerns and protests that some of those alerts are not helpful. They harm our tourism industry and undermine our authority as a sovereign State."
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