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    "id": 84261,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to hear that there is somebody recruiting an army of mercenaries from this country using parastatal machinery and vehicles is absolutely shocking. It means that Kenya is now becoming a holding ground for mercenaries and Kenya is doing that officially. Not very long ago, there are those tanks that came through and we were not sure where they were going to. It appears the Kenyan Government is either being clandestine on our relationship with our northern borders and our northern partners or it is actually actively involved in destabilizing that area. Hon. Duale also brought out the issue of a regional government. Why are we going to put up regional governments? Is that our responsibility? Is that something that we should be doing? Puntland and Djibouti are countries that were there a number of years ago – 50, 80 or 100 years ago. We cannot start encouraging regional setups that will be friendly to us. Either way, we take the Somali question as a whole or we say we are not going to be working with the Somali question in this way or that way. Let us have a particular policy on that, but clandestine recruitment of mercenaries is just not there. As hon. Duale said, what stops the Al Shabaab from coming over here to recruit mercenaries? The very fact that our youth in the north eastern part of this country are totally disillusioned and would rather put their lives at risk for a mere US$600, shows a lot! There are other countries that have taken advantage of the youth. They have brought them in, trained them and given them a livelihood. What are we doing? When it comes to anything north, they are all treated as not friends of Kenya. That is even if they were born in Kenya. Their grandfathers and forefathers have been here for over 200 years. They are not seen to be friends of Kenya. Why? Because they are of Somali origin! Why? Because they are Muslims! On top of that, there is the issue of the Census which we have come across and it has brought even more dissatisfaction."
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