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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I oppose it. It appears somebody somewhere is trying to act to please somebody without looking at the interest of the people who have already claimed that they suffer and have suffered in the hands of the people we are trying to make agreements with. In moving the Motion, the Chairman said that the UK is happy to come and have their exercises and activities with us. That is because in Laikipia and around Nanyuki where they stay, there are five geographical zones clustered together within a radius of less than 50 kilometres. Therefore, it is a great advantage to them because that is where they experience the desert, forests, rivers, and any other kind of climate and achieve what they want at the same time. At the end of the day, what we earn as Kenyans is a mere Kshs19 million. When they go to other countries, they take aeroplanes to transport their members to other camps to experience different climatic conditions. They pitch camps there and pay billions. Why the hurry? Why can we not negotiate with these people for a better figure? I come from Meru and most of the time these people are on the roads especially in Nanyuki Town where young soldiers run havoc in bars and nightclubs. If they commit murder or harm anybody, they are flown back home and they say they are going to try them there. They leave people suffering and traumatised in Kenya as if we do not have courts of law. In areas like Buuri, Laikipia and Timau, we have many children who are born of the soldiers."
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