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    "id": 367637,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abdi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. As a member of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, I support the Motion. I think that our country has suffered quite enormously because as a regional economic and political force we are punching below our weight. We are not recognised because of the poor foreign relations that we have. We are also not recognised because of the poor security relations that we have as well as the poor relations we have in the East African Community (EAC). What we want to do with these changes and with this new Government is to have a credible foreign policy; credible foreign service. We need to put our security forces up in terms of projecting our soft power. We use our foreign affairs in terms of projecting our soft power. In terms of projecting our security power or hard power, we use our security and defence forces effectively. We play a critical role in the EAC to make sure that we reach a monetary union very quickly and we play a key role as a country. I think that the men and women who had come before us for the Foreign Affairs, Defence and EAC jobs are able people. They are people who are highly qualified and can do that job. We have a young and dynamic Government and we believe that Kenya can turn a corner and become a regional power that is recognised in our region, the African Union (AU) level as well as at the global level. However, these three people need to play their role and clean the houses that they are going into with new brooms and make sure that we excel"
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