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    "id": 515073,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senator for Mandera for his persistence in trying to protect life and property not only in Mandera but Kenya as a whole. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am in the Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs and we recently visited Mandera. We are told that the border in Mandera is closed, but while there, you will realize that it is closed to Kenyans who want to go to Somalia but it is open to the elements on the other side to come into Mandera. In fact, it is an activity that we saw when we went there. When you go to the border post you will see vehicles coming from the Kenyan side or even from the Somali side and people going on with questionable business. This is something that has to be dealt with by the Jubilee Government. This is because an attack on Mandera or Lamu is an attack on the entire territory of Kenya. We have only one country called Kenya. Just as my friend has pointed out, towns in north-eastern Nigeria are empty and in ruins. You will go into towns where there are no people, because they have been either evicted and their property burnt or they have elected on their own not to stay in those towns. If something is not done quickly and now, we will begin to see people leaving towns in Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and other towns in the northern part of Kenya. The only way you can make a Kenyan feel like a Kenyan is to secure his life and property. When you talk to the people in Mandera, you will get the feeling that they are not confident that they are being given the security that they need, like other people in Kenya. Unless exceptional measures are taken to ensure that the life and property of people are safe, insecurity will continue. Now we are becoming a bit of a laughing stock if the Al Shabaab could attack Lamu and film what they did. We are beginning to enter into a time when you may even believe that war is business by other means. Sen. Billow did not say it but in his first statement, he said that the connections of those who are promoting these activities exist at the highest level. When you hear the people in Mandera themselves talking about what is happening to them, then you are left with the sense that somebody somewhere is not doing his work. I was imagining that my friend The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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