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    "id": 677874,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. When the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) decided to send additional troops to South Sudan, the Government in South Sudan flatly rejected the gesture and said that was tantamount to turning their country into a colony. That meant that the peace situation shall continue remaining volatile and the distinguished Vice Chair did not even bother to answer that. If our neighbour Uganda has sent a contingent of their troops into Juba to protect their nationals and evacuate them, what is so difficult with Kenya doing the same? Why have we not done that knowing that we have more Kenyans in South Sudan than even Uganda that is taking extraordinary measures of security for its nationals? Secondly, most of these warring parties in South Sudan live in this country and their families are here. In trying to bring them to order, has the Government considered imposing sanctions on those who are unwilling or flatly rejecting any gesture of sitting down to talk about peace in their country so that they do not set their country on fire and run to Nairobi to live in the rich suburbs of our city in Karen, Lavington, Runda and everywhere when the small ordinary person in their country is feeling the full weight of their misconduct as their politicians? Mr. Speaker, Sir, lastly, could the Chair, while looking for more information, inform us as a House and the country whether Kenya as the team leader of the process that led to the comprehensive peace agreement and the only African guarantor to peace in South Sudan, will move quickly to the African Peace and Security Council in the AU and the UN to call for a reconstitution of an international mechanism to bring order in South Sudan, the youngest county in the world, which is unable to hold together because of what I can call “the extreme views and selfishness of the leaders” where each does not want to be any lesser than the other?"
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