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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Gure",
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        "legal_name": "Shukran Hussein Gure",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Motion. The nominee who has been brought by the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations has vast experience and good academic qualifications. He is a good fit and match for this position. I want the nominee to focus on national security. Insecurity and terrorism in Kenya is mostly from Somalia. We want an ambassador who has strength and can deal with all those issues and stresses coming from that part of Somalia. Since we have committed ourselves and placed an ambassador in Somalia, we want that ambassador to be somebody who can negotiate between Somalia and Kenya and tie a relationship between Kenya and Somalia to eradicate terrorism. We want the office of the ambassador to be a patron on this issue of insecurity from Somalia. We have economic ties with Somalia. We trade; they come to our country to buy goods and we also get goods from there. We want the ambassador to be a patron on those issues. We do not want to have a problem when he goes to that office. We have cultural ties. Those people in Somalia are Somalis; we speak the same language and we have the same religion. We want the ambassador to work with us, leaders from this country who speak the same language with those people. My last point is, as Kenyans, we host the largest number of refugees in Kenya. In Dadaab Constituency where Mheshimiwa M.D. Duale and I represent, we have large numbers of refugees. We hope the ambassador will be somebody who understands. We have the largest refugee camps in the country, in Dadaab. We are asking him to visit Dadaab and see where the refugee camps are and see how those people live. He should negotiate with the Government of Somalia to come to Dadaab and take their people back because we want security and peace in this country. Speaking as somebody who represents Garissa County, we have suffered a lot and we do not want to suffer more. We want the ambassador to speak to people in Somalia, the Minister for Foreign Affairs there to get their people back and have a stable place for them. It should not be a place that is worse than where we have right now. I am sure they live comfortably in Dadaab but we want them to build schools, hospitals and all the basic facilities they need and take their people back. I rise to support the Motion. Thank you."
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