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    "id": 331220,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Kilimo",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Linah Jebii Kilimo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have really waited patiently for this chance to contribute. I would like to urge the House to facilitate these two Departmental Committees on Administration and Security and on Defence and Foreign Relations to do their work. In fact, they should move with speed once they are given the mandate to investigate this matter. Today we would be listening to their report if we had taken these issues more seriously. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to talk on behalf of the women whose voices no one wants to listen to because they are the ones who do petty businesses in order to support their families. Last night I could not sleep properly when I saw a woman crying in Garissa because she had lost all what she had. She was crying because the security personnel had destroyed where she used to display her wares and she had nowhere to go. We could see her house which had been destroyed by the security forces. Her children could not believe what they were seeing. Women feed their children and their husbands. So, when their source of income is destroyed, are we serious? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support that these two Committees should be facilitated just like they treat emergencies. The Government should have already called these Committees and told them: “Here, go and use these emergency funds” so that they can come back with a report on the two issues of Garissa and Baragoi. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have seen what the so-called ‘cattle rustlers’ are using to shelter themselves with. They are using women and children as human shields. These are people who do not know where the next meal will come from. Animals are scattered all over in Baragoi. They cannot get even one animal to draw blood to feed the children. Are we concerned about the plight of women and children in this country?"
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