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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, in my opinion, the Bankers Association must be an illegal association because it is a cartel. We must have laws to regulate it and stop it. Having said that, I want to talk about the security of this country. We are engaged in a war right now. In this war, we are helping the Somali people. I had said before that without carrying the Somali people on board, we will not succeed in winning this war. We must have a very serious civilian component in the struggle. We must carry the Somali on board. Otherwise, if they feel alienated, we will not succeed in our endeavours. I do not see that. We keep on getting one explosion after the other in my constituency in the refugee camps. The reason why we are getting these explosions is because for a population of 600,000 refugees against a population of 140,000 Kenyans, we have only four intelligence officers to gather intelligence information. If we had the right intelligence there and we take the right people who speak the right language, we would post them to the refugees’ camps and these people would be arrested before they explode our things. There is a serious failure on some arms of the Government on this war in Somalia. I congratulate the military. I was in my constituency despite the security alert on me, and I saw our forces across the border just two days ago. Our Defence forces are doing a good job and the Minister of State for Defence is doing a good job. Our intelligence and our police have to reciprocate the same. Having said that, yesterday, there was an operation carried out in the refugee camp in Ifo where Kshs38 million was taken away from our traders by our security forces. They went there, smashed the shops, broke into houses, broke into business premises and robbed them. How do we expect that population to support us in this war? This has got to have a face that is political and very clever. That will allow us to win this war. If we continue the way we are going, we will lose and lose miserably. Countries that have defence forces bigger than ours have gone into Somalia and lost and moved out like Ethiopia. The Somali welcomed us because they love Kenyans and they love what Kenya is doing in their country. We must reciprocate it ourselves and do the right things. I am saying that within the province itself, all this insecurity happens because there is a lapse. Last time when two women were abducted from Daadab, can you believe that out of our entire Provincial Administration security machinery, nobody trailed them? These women were being walked in our country for two-and-a-half days and the DC and the DO in Liboi, the officers who were in the areas that they passed by were not alerted to go and stop these people, arrest them and free the women. Everybody is absolutely worried about 2012 and all the Provincial Administration worries about is the dissolution of its own. There is a serious problem and there must be a complete overhaul of the Provincial Administration in our area. I must say that I am very happy because I got an excellent DC called “Mr. Kimathi”, the last two weeks, who is working very hard. However, the Provincial Administration, right from the PC, the intelligence machinery and all those things must be dealt with in a manner that will help us win this war. Otherwise, we will end up having a problem. Let us return the money to the people it was stolen from in Ifo Camp."
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