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    "id": 534812,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 431,
        "legal_name": "Hassan Omar Hassan Sarai",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to support the Motion; that this House adjourns until 28th April, 2015. I think that it will be an important time for us to go and reconnect with our constituents. Sen. Elachi’s last point will be my first point. Nigerians reacted with wrath over their Government’s continued inability to handle the escalating insecurity situation. The same narrative and rhetoric is being repeated here. As I said here, when I contributed to the President’s Speech, I have no doubt, because of the fine schools that the President went to, that his delivery of speech is beyond some of our imagination. But his delivery of action--- I think that this is the umpteenth time that we have stood in this Senate to condemn the same thing, time and again. Every time a calamity of this nature happens, he has gon on an overdrive of bravado. Madam Temporary Speaker, time and again, the President has accused his own countrymen and political parties of terrorism. Now, he is making it appear as if it is the courts that have costed us the lives in Garissa. I heard Sen. (Prof.) Lesan say that we need people who are smarter than the terrorists. Those people are probably on this side of the divide. I say that because the terrorists have outwitted them, time and again. That means that they need to change strategies. I think that on the broad outlook, I have heard the Senator for Mandera, being a Member of Jubilee Coalition and Mandera County Assembly being a Jubilee county, constantly urging Government to provide adequate security. I think that it is a high time that we now start to have strategies that will counter terrorism; that not only appeal to the hard part of security. There are what we call “soft” strategies. We need to start upping our propaganda so that we appeal to the hearts and minds of the young people in this country and across the borders. We must use progressive strategies that challenge the narrative of radicalization and extremist violence. Just the other day, Sen. Orengo and I were discussing the issue of the three young ladies - university students - who were arrested at Elwak, the Mandera border, while trying to cross over to Somalia to join the ranks of the Jihadists. This means that there is a certain betrayal by this Government and previous ones of its own people. Therefore, we need to up our game and stakes. We need to now appeal to the conscience of our people. Finally, I heard the Senator for Mandera say that it is time to withdraw. This is not about CORD, but making the country secure. It is time for us now to guard our borders rather than build a wall, which is extremely conventional and cannot stop the spread of a radical idea. It is high time that we looked for more proactive strategies about redeployment of our security forces within our borders with Somalia, so that we can deter and pursue those who come into our country and commit aggression. It is time to say enough is enough. We will not continue to act like the President of the Republic of Kenya who waits for something to happen so that he gives his political plebiscites and rhetoric and then we come here in this Senate and make the same rhetoric again and again. Somebody needs to take---"
}