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"speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development",
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our forces have no intention of staying one day longer than necessary in Somalia. Kenya is not an occupation force. In fact, they are handing over any area that is liberated to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia. So, they are doing a good job. They have no intention of staying for one second longer than necessary. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must also look at ourselves here internally. Who are perpetrating these grenade attacks? Going by the history, they are our own Kenyans. They are not foreigners. You will find Kenyans calling themselves different names. Those are the ones that we need to condemn. We need to find out why our young people are joining Al Shabaab . What is it that is lacking? That is what we need to do, so that we discourage them from joining Al Shabaab. The hon. Member has been to my office and, in fact, drew my attention to the fact that with the recent increase of duty on mitumba, the mitumba business is almost collapsing in Gikomba, and that there are now many young people who are unemployed as a result of the collapse of that business. I can assure this House that I am taking that matter seriously. Today, I had a meeting with Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) and we are going to review those rates, so that the mitumba business can go back and boys who were doing business in Gikomba can be gainfully employed. This is because I will not be surprised if one of the reasons it is so attractive to join Al Shabaab, is because of having nothing to do. So, we must give them something to do. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, in my time at the Treasury, I would like to recruit all the young people along the borders of Kenya and put them in the National Youth Service (NYS). This will be a special kind of recruitment, so that we remove this attraction of Al Shabaab. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, lastly, I must commend the police and even the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS). It is only that they do not announce the number of attempts that they foiled. But I have information that they have foiled so many attempts both by the NSIS and the police. It is only that they cannot announce, every time they are successful, that they there was this and that plot but they have been able to foil it. So, I urge that when the budgets for the NSIS and police come to this House, let us support them. They need even more money, so that they have an ear in every place in Kenya, including Gikomba and Eastleigh, so that they will be able to know in advance before these terrorist acts are perpetrated here. I have also spoken to the Commissioner of Police and told him that he also needs to increase the budget on police intelligence. When people used to say that the Kenyan Police Force was the best, it was because of their intelligence aspect. That is very important. The police must also have an ear on the ground. They must know what is happening every day, so that these criminals are arrested before they perpetrate these cowardly and dastardly acts that are just geared towards driving our economy down. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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