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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this very important Motion. I stand here as a devastated Kenyan. The despicable act by the terrorists on those innocent 28 Kenyans is something that all peace loving Kenyans must stand and condemn in every aspect. One of the things I wanted to say has already been said by hon. Waiganjo. What we are seeing is a systemic institution failure over the years. I stand here to say today without any contradiction that we do not have national security policy. I want to bring to the attention of the Members that, in the last Parliament; I was the Chair of the Defence and Foreign Relations Committee. In the year 2000 - I want hon. Duale to hear this. I want hon. Duale to hear this because he is a very important person. We did not have a national security policy. I want to remind Members, in the 2009/2010 something happened; the Government of Kenya through a policy that was cooked in River Road or elsewhere, decided to support the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. What they did is that they were supposed to recruit young and newly recruited Somalia soldiers in order to support the Government. Hon. Speaker, you know what they did? They went to Eastleigh, Garissa and Mandera and recruited young Kenyan Somalis totaling to 3,920. Those boys were promised hefty allowances under the auspices of the United Nations (UN) to go and work in Somalia. I want to ask, and I hope heads of the security agencies are listening, where are those boys today? All of them after having been trained in Isiolo, in Manyani are back in Kenya and these are the boys who are causing havoc. We have to blame ourselves. The state of insecurity we are seeing was manufactured by certain individuals in Kenya. 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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