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    "id": 49067,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will begin by thanking the Mover of the Motion. I came all the way from school to participate in this worthy Motion. I want to agree with hon. Ethuro that the killings along the Turkana/Ethiopia border are cyclic. We are, therefore, looking for lasting solutions. We do not want to be coming here to mourn every year. It has already been said by hon. Midiwo. Mr. Minister, we are saying: Create a buffer zone and then station the military there. Let them do their exercises because aggression from outside the border belongs to the military and not to the police. Let the police look after the internal affairs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us also have police posts at all the border posts. I am talking of buffer zones in all hot spots, including the Mandera-Ethiopia- Somali border. We cannot have warring parties in Somalia and Ethiopia coming to bring their fights to Mandera Town, as it happened recently. A government’s main sovereignty is appreciated when such government is able to provide security for its citizens within its borders and also along the border posts. We are offering you solutions, Mr. Minister, which you must implement. We passed for you, in the Supplementary Budget, a whooping Kshs5 billion, which you told us it will enhance security. You now have money. We, therefore, want you to immediately deploy sufficient personnel at those hot spots and, especially, Turkana. I want to empathise with the families of the deceased and the injured and to say that, this is an incident which, in countries that take pride over their sovereignty, no less than the President and Prime Minister would have visited Todenyang. What shocks a"
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