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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kaino",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Boaz Kipchumba Kaino",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me start by thanking the Mover of this Motion. I will try very much to avoid repetition. Most of my colleagues have spoken and have done so very well. The messages that have come here tell you how long ago we should have gone to Somalia. The cries in Somalia especially from the children have not only been for Somalia but also for Kenya to help them. They cried to Ethiopia and Eritrea to help them. However, we have turned a blind eye to these children. We felt the pain when we were hit by the massacres in this country. We did not realise how many children had died in those areas. Kenya cannot be stable with the problems in Somalia today. It will be correct and positive for this country if we support this Motion because of one thing. The problems that we have today are caused by the influx of refugees from Somalia. If that country stabilizes, you will see these refugees going away, naturally. You will not even ask them to go. You will see them going back to their country because it is very beautiful, fertile and has many natural resources. The international community should go to Somalia and help. It is good that many countries in the world have realized that it is important to have peace. You cannot enjoy peace when your neighbours are suffering. They will create the same problems for you and that is what we have in Kenya today. Let me put it this way. It is important that Kenya joins the other forces of the AU because when we are there, we will not go as Kenya but as Africans. We shall be sharing whatever burden we have with other countries. So, the burden we have been having there as a country will lessen. Once that is done, we should come back home because we also have small fires burning here. We have industrial strikes like the one of the doctors that the Government should address because patients are dying in the hospitals. We must also address the destruction in Syokimau and Embakasi. Children who lived in very good houses now live in shanties. The problem has been brought by the Government. These are small fires. As we take a lot of water to put out the fires in Somalia, we must also remain with some water to put out the small fires that we have here at home. Teachers met today and they are strategizing for another strike. The doctors are demonstrating, going round Parliament Buildings. People are sleeping outside or in shanties in Embakasi. These are also small fires that we must put out. However, the first priority is to watch over Somalia and make that country stable. With those few remarks I support wholeheartedly this Motion."
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