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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Munyes",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiyonga Munyes",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I take this opportunity to join my colleagues in condoling with the families and friends of those who have passed on after the painful attack in Garissa. The nation is pained and traumatised by what is happening in Garissa. However, as we speak, Turkana County is under siege. Lorokon village in Keekunyuk has been surrounded by people we suspect to be from West Pokot County and Uganda. We have already lost four lives in that village. The Red Cross Society of Kenya officials have been denied access. They cannot even take water and food to the villagers. The General Service Unit (GSU) camp is only four kilometres away from the village. The Anti-Stock Theft Unit (ASTU) is another 10 kilometres away. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, you can see the impunity happening in the country. I do not know whether to call this “ingredients of a failed state.” We are really a failed state, if this kind of impunity can occur, where a community is under siege for four days. Up to now, we do not know how many people have died in the Garissa University attack. Madam Temporary Speaker, when the Al-Shabaab attacked this country and we pursued them inside Somalia, there were few incidences in this country. Retreat is not surrender. We cannot claim to be inside Somalia if the frequency of attacks is where it is today. We spend so much inside Somalia yet our military has not achieved much as far as I am concerned because the number of people who have died in Garissa and Mandera is high, and many others are said to be under a bigger threat. This is because every day, there is an Al-Shabaab group crossing into our country. Madam Temporary Speaker, we cannot cry because we have put our resources in the military. My proposal is that the military should occupy our borders along Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Somalia instead of fighting inside somebody’s territory. It is incumbent upon the Somali community in Somalia to sort itself out. We cannot continue killing Somalis in Kenya. This is our country and we need to protect it. This kind of impunity should not continue. We need to save our country from embarrassment. The Al-Shabaab knows that the President of the United States of America (USA) will be coming to this country. They want to sabotage this country. They want to sabotage tourism in this country. I know of countries which have succeeded like Ethiopia and Uganda. A lot is not said about the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) in Uganda which has done very well in ensuring that their borders are safe. As we speak, the problem in Karamoja has been sorted out. Our military cannot even move from Eldoret to Keekunyuk and Lorokon to flush out the tribe from Uganda which is running away from the UPDF. Our military officers just sit in the barracks. They feed in the barracks yet people are dying. They are fattening. That is painful! Temporary Madam Speaker, as I speak, the other day in Lokichoggio - a barrack is closer there - people were being killed near a barrack. That is external aggression. My Ford Kenya Party Leader would say that, maybe we have not given them permission. However, it is happening--- 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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