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    "id": 811701,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ong’o",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Community integration process in deepening and widening the integration process including ensuring border communities are sensitised on these matters; cognisant of the fact that, Kenyans living along the borders, including fisher folk and pastoral communities, have continuously suffered from external threats through harassment, raids and arbitrary arrests, with even those operating in economic zones not immune to such threats; cognisant of the fact that the provisions of Articles 238 (1), 239 and 241(3)(a) of the Constitution stipulate that National Security involves the protection of Kenya’s territorial integrity and sovereignty, its people, their rights and national interest against internal and external threats; deeply concerned that Kenyans, especially those around Lake Victoria, the Indian Ocean and other border areas continue to face harassment and displacement by persons from neighbouring countries; this House resolves that the Government exercises its power to protect Kenyans from harassment by external threats and takes adequate measures to ensure that Kenya’s territorial integrity is guaranteed and safeguarded. I would like to start by saying that the controversies surrounding the ownership of islands in Lake Victoria, more particularly the one many Kenyans are more conversant with – Migingo Island – has taken such a long time. The controversy reached fever pitch or boiling point in 2009. I remember on 12th and 13th March 2009, a delegation from the country led by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Moses Wetangula, together with his counterpart in the Ministry of Lands then, Hon. James Orengo, led a delegation of Kenyans to Uganda. In that delegation were two Members of Parliament; the immediate former Member of Parliament for Nyatike, Hon. Dick Anyanga and myself, who is representing the same constituency with the different name of Gwasi Constituency. We also had a number of technical people and support people from survey, Ministry of Lands and Ministry of Foreign Affairs to try to resolve the issue of the border between Kenya and Uganda."
}