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    "id": 429367,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sane",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ibrahim Ahmed Sane",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if I may continue with my contribution, I was talking about the Al Shabaab menace in the country. I was reflecting on why Kenya is different compared to other countries that have their security forces in Somalia. I have realized that there are countries apart from Kenya like Ethiopia and Djibouti which have their security forces in Somalia with the AMISOM. Djibouti is 100 per cent a Somali country while Ethiopia has five regions inhabited by the Somali ethnic community, and so is Kenya as far as north eastern is concerned. Why is it that the AlShabaab nuisance is something specific to Kenya when the three countries have forces in Somalia under AMISOM? There is the Somali ethnic community in the three states. That tells me that something is not right with our security apparatus and Kenyans are not patriotic. Corruption is so systemic that our security forces may not protect us. This is something that we should ponder on. On the Nyumba Kumi initiative, I feel that, that is a soft approach to our challenges. Terrorism is real and the Nyumba Kumi approach will never be sufficient to respond to terrorism. We better have more proactive and radical approaches for handling security issues. On radicalization of Muslim youth, I feel that there are other underlying issues that contribute to radicalization and not necessarily the preaching of clerics. I feel that poverty and increasing cost of living are key issues that the State must address, if we are to contain our youth who are affected by hopelessness, and are trying to be recruited into groupings that are dangerous to our security. One thing we must appreciate is that Kenya has a very vast porous border with Somalia that is unmanned. Until we take our security forces close to this border and we improve a 24/7 surveillance of our security border we will always be having threats in Nairobi, which is our Capital City. If we have to fight terrorism in Nairobi, we should be clear in our minds that we are losing the battle to terrorism. We must handle these enemies wherever they are. We should engage them at their places of refuge instead of fighting them in our Capital City. The other issue is that in as much as I do not support terrorism, the rights of Kenyan Somalis are being interfered with on a daily basis. Currently, there are security swoops in Eastleigh, Mombasa and other parts of the country countering terrorism, but we have realized that the rights of the Kenyan Somalis, who have all the rights like other Kenyans, are being violated daily. I request the security forces to handle these swoops The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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