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    "id": 538351,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "For how long are we going to be living this way entertaining our neighbours, some of whom have become part and parcel of the terrorist actions that have been going on in Kenya? Hon. Deputy Speaker, it was just the other day when we had the Westgate issue. We have had incidences all over the place. Today, Kenya faces a crisis that requires us to work together, speak with the same voice and make the whole world know that Kenya is under siege. Even developed countries have been attacked. The occurrence of those incidences in Kenya is too much. We cannot go on this way. Sometimes, I feel sad and helpless. But I think something can be done. We do not want our country get to a level where we cannot walk, study or do our daily chores safely. We do not know where else those people are planning to strike. Just the other day, we tried to change our laws, so that we can have prior information and the Government can take action as it gets the information. Today is the saddest day of Kenya‘s history because of what is happening. I feel that, as Members of the National Assembly, apart from just talking and expressing our anger, we need to sit down and see how best we can work with the Government to make sure that, that does not happen again in our country. Tourism has gone down. People in Coast Province, who depend on tourism, have really suffered. They are hungry. Their children are not going to school. Now, we have students whose lives have been curtailed and destroyed at this point when we thought that Kenya is on the right track. We cannot be talking about our country going forward development-wise if we cannot deal with terrorism and stamp it out once and for all. I beg to move. I ask the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party, hon. Midiwo, to second."
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