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    "id": 535037,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/535037/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Shakila Mohamed",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "On the issue of security, security is wanting in this country. I want to start from Lamu, from the time we were hit in Lamu, Mpeketoni, to date we are suffering. We are suffering and I want to give an example. Since Independence, Lamu has not had even one kilometre of tarmac; the worst thing is when you are travelling in the morning, afternoon, midday or any other time; all buses are put in one place and eight buses are escorted by one escort car. To me, that is a way of even telling the terrorists that we are putting these people together and you can hit them at once. If we can afford, as a country, to give security to Somalia, why can we not afford to give security to every bus going to Lamu and from Lamu? This is hindering the growth of the economy of Lamu, causing a lot of delays and spreading dust. You have eight buses following one another and you cannot see anything. As I am talking, there is no tarmac in Lamu; it is a mess. We are suffering as far as security is concerned in Lamu. We are very vulnerable. We are at the border and putting walls at the border is not a solution. We need borders to be properly manned. If we have no idea, let us borrow a leaf from other countries and know how they man their borders; we can then do what they are doing. The President talked about energy and made it very clear that as a country we should embrace green energy. The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum was talking about nuclear energy. There is a coal industry coming up in Lamu, but I wonder what measures and what laws the Government has put in place to minimise the dangers that industry will cause to the lives of the people. Coal mining poses a lot of dangers and many problems. It is one project where the whole world is getting away from and I wonder why Kenya is going for the coal industry."
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