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    "id": 78727,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that this House adjourns, pursuant to Standing Order No.23, to debate the ongoing security operation in North Eastern Kenya, where security forces have tortured local leaders and residents. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Chair for evidently finding it proper that this matter be debated by the House as a matter of national importance. I also thank the House for agreeing with me that this matter is, indeed, of great national significance. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we all know, the role of our security forces in this country is to protect the lives and property of our people. The matter I intend to raise today arises as a result of the fact that our own security forces, instead of giving protection and security to our citizens, have turned to torturing and intimidating them at will. I raised this matter on the operations the officers are conducting in parts of northern Kenya and particularly in Wajir North Constituency; in the towns of Buna, Ingirir, Bute and many other locations of Wajir North Constituency. I raised this matter with full knowledge and understanding of the local Member of Parliament who happens to be out of the country on engagements. At the beginning of this month, the security officers undertook an operation in Wajir North and part of Moyale whose intention and purpose the people who reside in that constituency had no idea, had no prior information, had no knowledge of. Therefore, there was an operation where the citizens who live in that part of the country had no idea exactly what was happening."
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