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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.O. Ahmed",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Ore Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s State of the Nation Address. The Address by His Excellency the President was supposed to be an opportunity for him to clearly put forward the achievements of his Government for the last four years or so. Going through the Address, I personally see that it is hollow. It is more of a public relations exercise and nothing much of what has been achieved. For the record, I want to start with the issues that a number of Members, have spoken about in terms of achievements. It is very clear that in our Constitution, there are two levels of governments; that is the national Government and the county government. Each government is accountable to the people of Kenya. Each government is accountable in terms of the resources that have been given to it. It will be very wrong for us to attribute achievements or functions that have already been devolved to the national Government. If you tell me about a tarmac road in Wajir, I do not think there is any contribution from the national Government on that. That should be an achievement by the County Government of Wajir. The same applies to health systems. I would like to touch on a few areas one of them being security. We know that we have had a lot of issues in terms of security and this is one of the pledges that the Jubilee Government gave that there will be a disciplined force that will be professional, conditions will improve and that our borders will be safe than ever before. Unfortunately, today our borders are porous. The enemy comes into our country at will to kill and maim. Nothing much has changed. The story we always hear is that our forces are in Somalia. To date, Kenyans are still wondering how many of our boys and girls were killed in El Adde. We know many lost their lives and many families are still suffering. These are issues that we needed to know from His Excellency the President. Still on security, we know there is extremism and we know the enemy is using a lot of tactics through our youth but the approach we are also taking is totally wrong. That is why there is no change. I can tell you for a fact that as we speak today, 21 youth in an Islamic school aged between 15 and 18 years have been taken by our forces and are missing. That is not the right The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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