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    "id": 440425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to say a few words on this Motion. I start off by saying that I support it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Motion is on the Kenyan military personnel to have an opportunity to serve in peace keeping missions. The Mover talked about opportunities; and I kept thinking opportunities for what. My view is that the opportunities we are seeking by sending our forces to peace keeping missions is actually for our military to gain training and exposure. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would urge the Mover of the Motion perhaps to expand the concept to the Government looking for opportunities for our military personnel to have these kind of opportunities wherever they occur. I do appreciate the sentiments by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale on what the Constitution says as to what our forces are supposed to do. If it is that Constitution we need to amend, let us do it because if you look at other countries – and we very often like quoting countries like the US – they are all over the world. When you come to think of it, why are they interfering? Sometimes they do cook wars; but that aside, I think wherever there is a trouble spot, they will offer their forces and so on, to go there. when I look at it, all my readings and my looking at it and after evaluating it carefully, I think what they are doing, by and large, other than sometimes causing trouble deliberately for their own selfish ends, they also try to get training and experience opportunities for their personnel wherever they can. You will notice that every time we have, for example, a small problem – a bomb blast or a building which has collapsed or a situation where some rescue is needed – within 18 hours, the Israelis are here. Okay, they could well be humanitarian aid and all that, but the other one, the way I look at it, is that the Israelis are thinking; “that has happened in Nairobi, Kenya; it can happen to us”. So, because we have some people who are trained in the classroom on how to do this, an opportunity has come and their funds for coming to Kenya and rescue for the next three days comes from their training budget. That is the way I see it."
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