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    "id": 504580,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murungi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. People might think Mandera is far away or it is for Somalis but it is for all of us. My own brother is a teacher in a secondary school in Mandera. He could very well have been one of those who died. I would like us to clarify and separate two things; those who killed people in the bus were not people of Mandera. Let us not have emotions against Kenyans who live in Mandera. The people who attacked the bus were Al Shabaab criminals. It is our duty to protect our people from criminals. Those criminals have a strategy of dividing us and causing some of the noise we are hearing around. The criminals have devised a strategy to use religion. That is why they would come and tell people to recite the Quran. They are trying to create the impression that this is a religious war. It is not. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we have to handle this security situation, we have to understand the ideology of these criminals and what they are trying to do and not fall for it. We have defeated the Al Shabaab in conventional war in Somalia and what they have resorted to is guerilla warfare. There is no way you can meet Al Shabaab during the day and confront them armed to the teeth, you will never see them. The former Attorney- General, not the Emeritus, but the one before him---. The late Mukaru Ng’ang’a, said, if the Government closes the space for expression, then that will drive the Opposition underground. The then Attorney-General, Sir Charles Njonjo said, if the Opposition goes underground, even the Government will go underground and they will meet there. It is time that our Government had its own Al Shabaab . It is time that we had our own insurgency programme for flashing out Al Shabaab in this country. The Mau Mau would not have been defeated if the British did not recruit some of them and sent them back to the forest because they are the ones who knew the caves where the Mau Mau were hiding. They are the ones who knew the mountain trails. Time has come for us to trust some Somalis either from this country or from the other country. We should recruit them into an underground force to fight the Al Shabaab . It is time for us to infiltrate the"
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