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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I will go straight to His Excellency the President‟s intentions to revamp the security agencies especially the police by ensuring that they have adequate resources and facilities to do their job better. Even as they do that, the police force must also uphold the integrity of this country. I want to bring the attention of this House to an incident that happened just a few hours before the President delivered his Speech in Garissa Town. A restaurant was raided by an elite force of the police causing the disappearance of one of my constituents, Mr. Hassan Abdulahi Aden Liban, who is missing to this day. Luckily, his infant who was with him at that point was found, but Mr. Hassan Abdulahi has not been found. We are still calling on the Government to ensure that his whereabouts are known. We have asked who did this, but the police do not know. The military does not know either. Who then knows this? Who are these officers? This is tainting the image of our country. It is eroding the confidence that Kenyans have in the police force. We must not allow these kinds of things to continue. We are begging and seeking for answers from the Government as to what happened in that incident and the whereabouts of my constituent, Mr. Hassan Abdulahi Aden Liban. Going on to the President‟s Speech, his apology, as was mentioned by my colleague from Wajir earlier, came as a consolation to us as the people of North Eastern Kenya. We welcome it. The Kshs10 billion that has been set aside for compensation must go to the right persons. Corruption in Kenya is the other issue that I want to address. It is at a point where we either slay it now or it consumes us all. That is where corruption is right now. The President has taken a very bold step to call on all the people who are on that list to step aside, so that they can be investigated. The EACC, as it is right now, is letting Kenyans down. It must pull up its socks. The Commissioners whose names have been mentioned on several controversy issues, who are not able to work together, must step aside, so that other Kenyans can do the job. The President called on the county governments to equally stand up to measure up like he has done and shown. He has asked a number of his Cabinet Secretaries to step aside. The county governments and the governors who have been mentioned here, as was advised today by the Attorney-General, whose view I uphold very much, must step aside. Those governors must step aside. Their deputies must be let to carry on the job. There will be no vacancy in that particular position until their names are cleared from that list. Hon. Speaker, it is very important that Huduma centres that the President has mentioned be reinforced. For us the people of Northern Kenya, getting an Identity (ID) Card is a serious problem. The Huduma centres way is going to solve this problem so that when a person walks in there he finds the entire team. He should not be told to wait for the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) to come with his team on a particular day. You should walk in there and find all the systems ready. As I end, in line with that Huduma centre, we the Muslim community, the Hajj pilgrimage timetable has changed. We now need to register three to four months earlier to go to Hajj. This is the time to get passports. The Garissa immigration office has been closed. We seek that that office be reopened immediately otherwise there will be no Kenyan going for pilgrimage in the next session. This is the time to put the applications. We have elderly men and women of between 70 and 80 years who wish to go for the 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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