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    "id": 514712,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/514712/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1987,
        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "One, Somalia has no strategic or economic importance to this country for us to involve a lot of our resources and many soldiers. The moment the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) move out of Somalia and they are stationed inside Kenya and not in Somalia, from Kiunga to Mandera that is when you will see peace because Somalia is of little strategic importance. In fact, Somalia has taken Kenya to the International Court of Justice in The Hague wanting to take some of our coastal areas where they think there is oil. So, we must ask ourselves as leaders: What is it that we have to sacrifice our soldiers when we do not have security within our borders? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you go to any place in northern Kenya and even the Coast and I have been to several places, tourism is gone; hotels have no guests and business is down because Al Shabaab wanted it that way but we cannot give up and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We will fight until we defeat them. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to say that a policy and new strategies have to be put in place because the old system of fighting terrorism has failed. We have been attacked time and again. I want to suggest that the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), the Kenya Police and all security agencies involve Somalis themselves. The policemen, the intelligence gathering and everything should involve the local Somalis. They know those people. They know their language and they know how they move around. That will solve the problem but sending people from other parts of the country, they may not understand the intricacies and the methods to fight this scourge of terrorism. Kenya has been very insecure in that part of Mandera. It is not a bad idea trying to involve communities living along the borders; try to bring them together and let us work out a security situation where we share intelligence and we see ways of combating it. Let us have communities that live in those areas hold meetings across the border. In Tiaty and areas where there is insecurity, that is how hon. Abongotum and others have managed to contain the situation, they know where the shoe pinches. They know where there is insecurity. Let us encourage local communities living around Mandera---"
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