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    "id": 74220,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/74220/?format=api",
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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 I would like to invite the hon. Member to listen very carefully when I am responding. First, the pirates do not come from Kenya. They come from outside our territorial waters. He should know that the territorial waters are very expansive. We are talking in terms of 200 nautical miles inside the sea from the coast. But these activities are not confined to our territorial waters. They go right up down to the Gulf of Aden; that is where it starts coming down and it goes several kilometers. Some ships have been hijacked 300 kilometres off the coast; that is deep in the high seas. So, these kinds of activities require collaboration internationally. Kenya does not have capacity and no country in the world alone has that capacity. Maybe probably, it is the only super power. We do not have all the ships but this does not mean that we do not have enough ships to patrol our territorial waters alone here. But we do not want to wait for the menace to come here because some ships which are destined to Kenya are hijacked, sometimes in the Somali waters but those ships were actually carrying goods which were coming to Kenya. That is why we cannot just wait for these ships until they come to Kenyan waters to deal with them. Ultimately, it is Kenya that is affected. I have given an example how the insurance premiums have gone up for goods destined to Kenya. So, this is making both our imports and exports much more expensive. Some ships have had to detour, avoiding the Somali coast and going deep inside the ocean plying more than 1,000 kilometres extra in order to come. Others have rerouted to come through the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, instead of coming through the shorter route through the Suez Canal to here. So, this problem is much bigger than the hon. Member may be thinking about it. The problem is bigger and requires concerted international collaboration."
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