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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the chance. I stand to support this Motion and I want to thank Mr. Eugene Wamalwa for bringing it as a matter of national importance. We are sitting on a time bomb. Along the Kenya-Uganda border, from Turkana to Busia, it has been militarized for the last two or three years. Our Government, on the other hand, is using ordinary policemen to face soldiers from Uganda, Ethiopia and Sudan. What is the work of the military in this country? Is the work of the military not to protect our borders? Our soldiers are training in Ngong next to Nairobi while Turkana people are being killed by Ethiopian soldiers. Why can our soldiers not be at our borders? Why would they need to train a few kilometers from town? I hope the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security who is also the acting Minister for Foreign Affairs is here today in his capacity as Minister for Foreign Affairs and not Minister for Internal Security because this matter rests with the Kenyan military. Why is the military not doing its job to protect Kenyans? Last week, we had an argument here over how to scrutinize the military budget. I think this House needs to do more. We need to know what the military is doing to protect Kenyans. Why are we using taxpayers’ money to finance and support the Kenyan military which has never been at war since independence and is not trying to go to war? If the Government cannot use army men and women to protect the borders, we need, therefore, to use diplomacy to engage our neighbours. I want to say that Idi Amin tried it. Idi Amin claimed Kenya up to Naivasha and Limuru. The Government of Uganda today"
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