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    "id": 541886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "They will take their trained people with trained equipment, take the uniforms of the guards in those places and mark every area. You only need to press a button that you are threatened and the yellow line will not be passed by any terrorist. They are all wiped out in five minutes. These mechanisms are known to our security agencies, but they are not applying them. Instead, we are likely to get into a blame game, and say: “North Eastern leaders, you are not doing this. South Eastern leaders, you are not doing this. Coast leaders you are not doing this.” It is the Government to respond. We want to see action. I know it can be done. I remember one time somebody said Pwani si Kenya . I asked myself: “Who is this saying Pwani si Kenya?” Some leaders were tempted to say that we should negotiate with the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), who are criminals, for purposes of votes. We have to stop politicising security for purposes of cheap publicity. It will not help us. When people are dying they will not care whether they belong to Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) or United Republican Party (URP). It did not take us time to crash that organisation. They are now silent. When we had problems with Mungiki, the day we resolved that there will be no Mungiki anymore, within three months it was done. You do not hear Mungiki again. We have allowed Al Shabaab to grow and mature in our country because of lethargy in terms of response to security demands in this country. Once the leaders agree we should move, we should have enough personnel with enough equipment backed by adequate technology to deal with Al Shabaab . A wall from Mandera all the way to the Indian Ocean is not helpful. We have other mechanisms which can be brought in. The experts have all this information. You may only need a wall in the urban areas around Mandera and some of the crossing points. The rest will be technology-trained people committed, with the capacity and backed by adequate equipment to deal with that. Why should we not allocate enough resources? These days there are Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that can tell us who is crossing our border anywhere. What is the Air Force doing? They should be intercepted before they even enter Kenya. By just touching the wall between Jordan and Israel, there is an automatic response to deal with you. So, we should not allow our country to suffer investment losses simply because the officers responsible are unwilling to respond. The first response should be resource allocation. The next is training. The third is equipment. The fourth is commitment and motivation for our people to work. These are simple strategies that can easily be implemented. Why is it not being done? Mr. Chairman, please take the message. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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