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    "id": 273488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the hon. Member for brining this Motion. I would also want to give a message of condolence to the families who are bereaved and also send a message of quick recovery to those still in hospital. I will be very brief and just indicate that as a country, we need to look at the issue of youth and unemployment. If you look at the faces of the persons who are suspects in these cases, they go by names of Odhiambo, Kamau and all that, yet in the past we have always assumed they will be foreigners coming from very far. I am not saying the foreigners are not there; they are also there but increasingly we are getting recruits who are people from within and are very young people. So, really, we need to look at the issue of unemployment and that is why sometimes it is very unfortunate when we politicize programmes that are supposed to help young people. Let us support programmes that come and are supposed to help young people. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that the Minister for Finance has left. Since I am seeing Mr. Ojode here, I would encourage that when the Budget comes, we need to see the link between the money we are giving the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS) and the action that is on the ground. Just the other year, we gave Kshs3 billion. I know the police are trying their best but I think they should be doing better. That is because of the issue of corruption. Only yesterday, I was watching a programme on news where a young man was saying how they get these scrap metals, having bribed the police to look the other way. So you cannot rule out the fact that our police are also bribed to look the other way in issues of insecurity especially in cases where there are people who are suspected. The parents were talking and saying: “This young man’s actions are very suspect”. I want to talk to the issue of our porous borders. We are not taking control of our borders very well especially over the issue of foreigners who are coming in. I know there are parts of this country; we have Kenyans who are Somali but we also have Somalis who do not speak Kiswahili. We know that a majority of Somalis who do not speak Kiswahili are not actually Kenyan Somali. We let them thrive in this country and again, because of the issue of corruption---"
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