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    "id": 2568,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Farah",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farah Maalim Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you very much. I also want to really congratulate the professionalism of our forces and the Ministry of State for Defence even in dealing with the forces that they have trained in offering them leadership in terms of command. We now need to train the Somali army, so that they are able to perform; they are able to be the force before us. That is the only way that they will own the process themselves. They will not see this thing as an invasion and they will see us as brothers who have gone there to liberate them. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have close to 600,000 refugees in our country. At this rate, if we do not do something about Somalia, in another five years, we will have 5 million Somalis in here. It is imperative that we go into Somalia the way we did it. My constituency now hosts 560,000 Somali refugees. They are using the vegetation there for energy. Just imagine 560,000 people going every day out there to cut trees from that arid and semi arid area for their own energy. The place will turn into a desert. There is no sufficient education for their children there. They cannot access universities outside. The children who were born in the refugee camps have married in the same camps. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to do something for the sake of the African fraternity and brotherhood. We are not an imperial country that intends to build. We have to come straight on the issue of the continental shelf. There has never been a dispute between us and Somalia in the past. I think the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs to come out into the open to say that there is no way Kenya---"
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