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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Konchella",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Sitelu Konchella",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support this Motion with reservation. I am glad the two Ministers are here. My reservation is that the broad mission of AMISOM in Somalia has been there for the last four years. Could we have an audit of what they have done to stabilize that country and protect the people of Somalia? By joining AMISOM, we are subjecting our troops to go back to an entity that has no proof of having done anything. I do not think I will agree with that. At the moment, we have our troops trying to stabilize that country. We should not go to keep peace in Somalia. We should go there and create peace. That is what we are doing as far as I am concerned. We have between 500,000 and million Somali refugees in Kenya. We must create a buffer zone for these people to go back home and live in peace and start developing their country. They need to go there and build schools for their children. For us to tell our troops to go there and live in barracks, we will be exposing them to attacks by Al Shabaab militias. Our troops are not lame ducks to go and sit in barracks. If that is the arrangement under AMISOM, I will support this Motion with reservation. I am asking the Ministers that when they discuss the terms of reference for our troops that they agree on the following: 1. We must be in our own zone. If we are occupying the AMISOM zone, it will be in a section for Kenya troops. We have to create peace there. We have to go for Al Shabaab . We have to clean the towns and provide security. We have to build schools, so that Somalis can send their children there. 2. We, as a country, must also be supported to get the people of Somalia back to their country. They are tired of being here. They are intelligent people. They are businessmen. Let us create a zone for them to go and develop their country. That is the only way we can win the hearts of the people of Somalia. That is the only way they can go, develop and stabilize their own country. That should be our mission; not to go under AMISOM, under the command of somebody else who has to wait for orders from the United Nation. All our troops must get orders from Nairobi if they convert to be part of the AMISOM troops. That is why we need our own sector, so that our troops can get orders from Nairobi and be able to carry out operations to stabilize that country. The other issue which I would like to ask the Ministers to do is that as we create our zone, let us develop plans to take the Somali people back home. We can do this by creating a peaceful environment for them to go back. Our intelligence forces should be able to identify the elements who are among the refugees. We want to tell the Somali people who are in Kenya, for goodness sake, that their children are tired of being refugees in other parts of the world. They want to go home. They want to develop their own country. I urge them to identify the people who have been causing problems in this country. Already we have had so many bomb attacks in Garissa and even here in Nairobi. So, what we are asking them is; they should work with our security forces and our own Somali community in Kenya, so that they identify those elements which are causing problems among them, so that they can be dealt with in accordance with the Kenyan law. With those remarks, I want to support."
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