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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
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    "content": "Thank you, Temporary Deputy Speaker. I just want to thank the following hon. Members; hon. Mule from Matungulu, hon. Oyugi from Ndhiwa, hon. Diriye, hon. Mohamed Elmi, hon. Keynan, hon. Amina and all those Members who were concerned and went there. But hon. Duale was here in Nairobi! I just want to say that, instead of the Leader of Majority Party blaming the Government institutions, if he was very serious about the security in northern Kenya, he should resign from Jubilee. I just want to say that what has led to insecurity in northern Kenya, first, is economic deprivation since Independence. No Government has ever invested in North Eastern Kenya. People are poor and they are fighting for pasture, water and economic survival. The other reason is instability in Somalia. So many free firearms are moving around. The third reason is clanism. When there is a war or a state of conflict like we have in Wajir, mothers move away from their homes with their children. Those children do not go to school and no economic activity is taking place there. Those people are suffering so much. You only have to experience it to know the amount of suffering that is going on. We have not seen any seriousness, 51years since Independence, to stamp out insecurity in northern Kenya, the way it was done in Mount Elgon. If they really want to do it, it can be done. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the presence of KDF in Somalia has also contributed to instability not only in Wajir, but the whole of Kenya. Let us consider pulling our troops out of Somalia and we will have peace. You cannot defeat terrorism as a small country. The whole world must fight it. There is something that people do not know. The Somali Community has more than 30 million people. They live in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and everywhere. They are more than the Akamba people. The Somalis are so many. They contribute so much to the economic activities of those countries. But when it comes to giving back to the Somalis in the countries where they reside – and they traverse borders apart from Ethiopia – the other governments do not give Somalia the support it deserves. Look at what happened in Eastleigh, we do not know whether we were fighting terrorism. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, even if we try to bring law and order in northern Kenya, unless we pull our troops from Somalia, and we allocate a lot of Equalisation Fund to northern Kenya, the youth there will be lured to radicalization. That is because they will get employment and those kinds of things. If you give people economic livelihood, they will not resort to criminality. Every community must feel 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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