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    "id": 429505,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, time is short and I will be very brief. Looking at the President I see a well-meaning leader who is seeking guidance from everybody to lead the nation best. That is what I want to go to straightaway. There is a very big problem on national security. I want to request the President because time is limited, first, to get a way of getting the National Assembly in particular to bring down that thing they call “vetting of the police officers”. We are in danger of weeding out people we have trained to use guns using public resources. We will release them to the public without employment. My fear is that if we are not careful, we are releasing trained thugs without jobs. I will be bringing a Motion if not amendments to the relevant laws so that the police vetting can stop. On national unity, the President ought to have looked at the National Security Council (NSC). This is a Council with nine members. Four are Kikuyus, two are Kalenjins and three are shared by other Kenyans. You cannot talk about national unity if you look at that arrangement. This goes down to all the other sectors of the Government. People have complained about the arrangement in the State Law Office. Of course, these things go to the issue of national unity and cohesion in a very serious way. When you have a State Law Department which doubles as the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs where the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General and all registrars are from one ethnic community really---"
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