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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I have been listening very keenly to the Mandera County Women Representative. I must say that I agree with her in totality. I was listening to hon. A.B. Duale speak. I got an impression that this Government is not serious because the way they are talking is as if Al Shabaab is some conventional army sitting somewhere waiting to be fought or fighting in a normal way. Al Shabaab are shooting people from as far as Busia, Kisumu, Siaya and everywhere in this country. So, if you approach Al Shabaab in the normal way of fighting wars with foreign bodies, we are going to miss it. I fail to understand one thing: Why does the Government want to re-invent the wheel? If Al Shabaab is a foreign army, why has it failed to attack Ethiopia? Why has Ethiopia resisted Al Shabaab attacks if it is a question of Kenya having sent forces to Somalia? Remember Ethiopia went there earlier than Kenya? We have a problem in our hands. There has been talk and the Member of Parliament who moved this Motion said very clearly that the Kenyan security forces are busy whiling away time in Kismayu while leaving the work of guarding our borders to Ethiopian forces. If that is true, then this Government has failed in its most cardinal 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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