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    "id": 440497,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/440497/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kajwang",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "I wish somebody took a photo of me, I would be hanging it somewhere prominently in my library because it was a good moment for me to speak about our country, especially the problem that we had at that time in Somalia. The international community did not understand our problem; they did not understand that we were facing abductions; that we were facing bombings and sabotage in the hands of the Al Shabaab almost everywhere. They did not understand that these young people – I hear that Al Shabaab means ‘young people’ – were destroying our tourism industry. I had to then ask, on behalf of the country, that the UN, especially the US, should support us so that we move into Somalia and bring some order there so that our neighbours will have a responsible government that we could then deal with. Because it is much better to deal with a responsible government on the other side of the border than to deal with some defused membership of some fluid organization called Al Shabaab . Immediately after my speech, which was supported by Mrs. Clinton, an order was made that Kenya’s request be accepted; and that our soldiers who were already in Somalia be rehatted. “Rehatting” means that they were now no longer Kenyan soldiers; they were now soldiers of the UN operating in Somalia to bring peace in that country. Rehatting did two things to us; first, it"
}