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    "id": 818243,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the Petition that has been presented by Hon. Omar. This Petition is very important because the KDF were sent to Somalia to capture Al Shabaab and come back. Even though later they metamorphosed to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), the fact of the matter is that they are still the soldiers of the Republic of Kenya that defend the people of Somalia. I support the Petition in the sense that we need more security at the border with Somalia than having camps inside Somalia that resemble Kahawa and Lang’ata barracks. The other day, I was informed that there is a wall that is supposed to be built across the Somalia border. Ten kilometres of that wall has already cost us Kshs3.5 billion. The distance is a 1,000 kilometres and so, it requires Kshs3.5 trillion to build the whole wall from Mandera to Kiunga. Through this Petition, we need to rethink whether we still need to keep KDF inside Somalia or we bring them back inside Kenya so that they can protect us. With those few remarks, I support. They are doing no business in that area other than being accused of many other things like selling charcoal, sugar and such kind of things. It is high time our soldiers returned. They have stayed there for long; they have stayed there for almost 10 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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