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    "speaker_name": "Mr. George Nyamweya",
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    "content": "You will also note - and this has come from the Ministry itself - that indeed, too much of the time we are blaming external forces, and particularly the Al Shabaab and AlQaeda . But those are external. The problem is internal and until we get to the root cause of our poverty and unemployment and give a meaningful life to our people, we are not going to get away from those sorts of incidences. When we went into Somalia, we were quite aware that there would be external and internal repercussions. It seems that our Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security must have relaxed because, at the beginning of the war, we were quite alert; everybody was. There was proper engagement with the people of Kenya. It was alerting them to beware of areas where you have huge numbers of people. We were told about the shopping supermarkets. We were told about offices. We were told about bus stations and so on. So, I would urge the Ministry to go back to being fully alert and not to expose or relax, thinking that things are going on well, now that we have become part of the UN force in Somalia; and that, therefore, translates to internal stability or security. That could only happen because of that relaxation. If, indeed, and we also know that the National Intelligence Security Service (NSIS) is alert--- We know as we have heard that there are many plots which have been foiled, but they are not announced. But it is not sufficient to come and tell us: “Out of 100, at least, we have sorted out 99 and the hundredth is the one that has got us into this problem.” If it is, indeed, the question of the ability in terms of : “You know the suspect as I think they do”, and if it is necessary that we have legislation, why can the Government not have legislation to deal with clear areas of where you know there are acts of terrorism anticipated and so on, rather than say: “We know it is so-and-so. Arrest him and then release him”. Then, the same people are the ones who go and cause this problem."
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