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    "id": 290176,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/290176/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chachu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I want to thank the Minister for a comprehensive response. This is the Great North Road linking Cairo to Cape Town. This is a road used by many countries in Sub-Sahara Africa. The Minister said that only nine incidences happened this year but I have done my own investigations which I am happy to table and there are 14 incidences which happened from January this year to date. The latest was on 31st May, 2012 on the eve of Madaraka Day when a vehicle belonging to Milako Conservancy was attacked. Every weekend when we leave here to go to our constituencies, we are not sure whether we will make it back safely. There is an incident where an hon. Member for Marsabit North then, in early 1980s was killed by bandits on that road. People are not even traveling through those counties of Marsabit and Isiolo. There are hardly any patrols going on irrespective of what the Minister is saying here. Five people have been killed just this year traveling; strangers taking livestock to Nairobi and other markets and all their animals have been offloaded when we have police officers at Merile and Archers Post. What is this Government doing to ensure security on that Great North Road so that our people can travel freely in this free nation?"
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