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    "id": 811859,
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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Nyasuna",
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        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "County which I represent has over 145 fishing beaches. The people along these beaches wake up every morning and wonder whether they are truly Kenyans or they belong to another country because of the mistreatment that they are taken through. They go into the lake, their boats and their fishing gears are confiscated and they are forced to eat raw fish. No Kenyan should go through this level of humiliation when they have a Government to speak about. It is unfortunate that the feeling among our people and ourselves is, we are side-lined. The number of Press conferences and the number of times we have spoken on this matter and the deaf ears this has fallen on, show us that this is political side-lining. We hope that through this Motion that has been introduced by the Leader of the Minority Party…I thank him for bringing this timely Motion and the amendment that has been brought by Hon. Millie Odhiambo, there is no reason why the navy should not move into the waters of Lake Victoria. Currently, our police are facing an army. They have no naval skills, they have no boats to patrol the lakes and they have no human resource to handle this matter. It is my hope that the Committee on Implementation whose vice chair contributed to this Motion that by Thursday this week, it will invite the Cabinet Secretary in charge of internal security so that we have a way forward on that matter and so that this Motion does not go into the files and begin rusting. Every single day, we have our people being harassed and economies being lost. This is economic sabotage and I hope that the Committee on Implementation does not take this as part of their files. It has been spoken about here. I saw Members here. We want by this Thursday to have this matter canvassed and resolved and the navy moving into our waters as soon as possible to guard and protect our people."
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