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    "id": 451055,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Elmi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 82,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you. First and foremost, I want to thank the two hon. Members, hon. Oyugi and hon. Mule who visited Wajir by road on completely something different but, when they saw that something was not right, they went and stood in solidarity with us. We have total failure in the management of security. My constituency, as an example, had 14 schools closed and 6,000 people displaced. Wajir Town has houses burnt down. Mandera has the same problems. I want to urge this House to take a very serious stand on conflict in pastoral areas because if any group of people decided to fight in this town in whatever name, whether it is tribe or religion, it would not take a day to be stopped. Why is it that people go and kill others and yet nothing happens? I am very disturbed at the way things are going. If you Google the words “failed state” one of the easiest definitions given is that when the state allows its constitutional right to violence--- It is only the state that is legally mandated to use violence. When it abdicates that and allows other groups to pick it up, then it is a failed state. At the moment, what is happening in Wajir, Mandera and other parts of northern Kenya is exactly that. People have been left to their own devices. People are being killed; people are being displaced. We are promised security and as the hon. Member has said, many people are involved. Goodwill promises have been made but they do not get realized. So, what am I pleading with the House to do? I am pleading with the House to make the Executive, because we are part of the Government, provide security. Boots should be on the ground. They should also provide relief and resettlement for people who have been displaced in the last few years who are still being displaced because of the new cases of insecurity. They should also pursue criminals. They should bring even one person to court, be it in Wajir and largely my constituency, where over 20 people have died. Similar numbers have died in Mandera but not even one person has been taken to court. How can people say that they have beefed up security or done something and yet, not a single person has been taken to court? This conflict has continued for a number of years. Leaders have come together and the last time we were at Kotulo"
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