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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barua",
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        "legal_name": "Ejidius Njogu Barua",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would also want to add my voice and comment on the Presidential Speech. I would like to congratulate the President for the presentation that he made to this House. In particular, he mentioned and put to the fore very key issues that affect this nation, some of them being security, support to devolution, increase in energy and access by the local population especially schools. He also mentioned about the wage bill, infrastructural development and many others. Due to the shortage of time, I would like to concentrate on a few issues, one of them being security. It is very clear that right now, Kenya is like a battle zone. In my opinion, there are more explosions in Nairobi than in Mogadishu. I would like to congratulate the President and the Kenyan Government for having made the initiative to go to Somalia to stabilize and liberate that nation. Having done that, in my opinion, a time comes for us to rethink the strategy. As a Government, we have done what we were supposed to have done. We have secured that country from the AlShabaab, but this time, we are talking about stabilization. The Kenyan Forces should be used as much as possible to secure the borders. Time has come for us to renegotiate with the international community in terms of the composition of AMISOM. We can get more international personnel in Somalia, so that we can get our troupes back to Kenya to secure us. Right now, in Mombasa, everybody is on panic mode because of what happened this week and last week. In Nairobi, if you go to Eastleigh, explosions are all over. In my opinion, Kenya requires more international support in the fight against terrorism than Somalia itself. I would like the President to rethink that strategy and see 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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