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    "id": 811847,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": "I would like to call upon our Government... One of the challenges we have in Committee on Implementation is when we say the Government should do something. The question then of who the Government is arises. His Excellency the President, whom I elected and I belong to Jubilee Party, is the Commander of the Armed Forces. Our neighbours have not deployed the police but a special unit of Uganda Defence Forces to Migingo Island to harass our fishermen. At the end of debate of the Motion, the starting point should be to urge the Government to deploy a specialised unit of our Kenya Defence Forces which deals with marine issues so that we can equalise power in Lake Victoria. From then, our neighbours will stop taking us for granted. When the military of a neighbouring country arrests our law enforcement officers, we should not take that lying down as a country. As a country we love peace and that has been taken for granted by our neighbours. As a country we uphold the provisions of the UN Charter. We respect what was resolved by the African Union (AU). We are also bound by the spirit of East African Cooperation. At this point, we should be talking about borderless East Africa - a properly integrated East Africa – and not an East Africa where a neighbouring country is harassing our people. Because of lack of protection, our people are forced to enter into the kind of memorandum of understanding (MOU) that Hon. Millie shared with us. That is illegal. Where boats are confiscated, they are destroyed. That is economic sabotage. As I stop, because my time is out, I would like us to strongly resolve that our Government, specifically the Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, deploys the army there so that our people can be protected. From there, the other side will be forced to come to the negotiating table."
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