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    "content": "is paid for by a UN Fund. So, this does not cost this country any dime. The UN pays, Kenya does the job and we get a good name. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to end by saying that as we agree to the Executive to deploy our young men and women in uniform in Sudan to go and do a very noble duty of stabilizing a neighbour in trouble, we must always remember that it makes little sense in law, in fact and in common sense for you to run with a pail of water to extinguish fire on your neighbour’s house when your own house is on fire. As we go out there to extinguish fires in South Sudan, Darfur and Cote de Voire, we must remember that this country has serious internal security challenges. We must remember that whatever we are going to do out there and come back with medals and smiles and praises, we must also face and tackle our internal security challenges. I know that we cannot deploy the army to deal with our internal security but we vote money for other organs of security that must keep our peace. It makes little sense for us to go to South Sudan and make sure that the Nuers and Dinkas are living at peace and yet here in Kenya, we cannot even walk to a local café and enjoy a cup of tea without a grenade being tossed at us. We cannot go to a social place without an alarm that something may happen. We cannot go to Westgate Mall for shopping with innocent children and wives and then come out with bullets in our heads like my learned classmate, the late Peter Simani. So, as we do that out there, we must remember that charity starts at home and we must make sure that Kenya is absolutely secure for us to export peace to other countries. We cannot export peace if we do not have peace. I beg to second."
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