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    "id": 68710,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member for Lari wanted to know about a Kampala bound bus that was arrested at the Busia Border, whether any Kenyans were arrested and what has happened to them so far. That issue was responded to by the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security in the House and he gave the full details. I am not in a position to give those details right now. Hon. Kapondi wanted to know about funding of our security agencies to make them more effective in dealing with these issues. I want him to know that we are carrying out a very comprehensive reform programme of our security forces to make them more effective. One of the conditions include improving their working, living conditions and wages. That is an ongoing exercise to make our security forces better motivated and more effective in dealing with their work. The MP for Mandera East asked a question which, of course, was a subject of another Question which had been dropped, about Kenyans being trained for deployment to Somalia. I want to say categorically here that we have never recruited Kenyans to be deployed in Somalia. We are helping the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Somalia to develop its capacity by training Somalis and not Kenyans. It was Somali Somalis. That exercise is not only being done by Kenya, but also by Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda. The initiative is being assisted by the Government of Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. So, I want to categorically deny that we have recruited Kenyans for military action in Somalia. Hon. Kiuna, MP for Molo, wanted to know whether prosecution of pirates arrested in Kenyan courts might be the cause of the attacks and, maybe, the pirates are retaliating on Kenya. That is because we have agreed to use our courts to prosecute the"
}