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"content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to support this Motion wholeheartedly. In supporting this Motion, I want the House to reflect on development in the world; no single place has been developed through the use of force. No one in the world has been able to achieve equitable development by use of force. I want to persuade this House from the outset to look at Somali as a resource, and as a people who are our brothers and sisters; we should not use ideas borrowed from the US, particularly from the Pentagon. Once you see them as people who are not supposed to be on this planet then our thinking and polices will be guided by how the Americans would like us to look at them. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is a shame that we have carried on policies that are not researched by us, but are researched in somebody elseâs backyard. We are told that everybody who looks like a Somali is an enemy of the State, is a potential AlShaabab and a potential criminal; we forget that even in the 19th Century the Somali people, who occupied the biggest coastline in Africa, were the ones who encouraged British settlement into Kenya. We are not saying this out of lack of knowledge. What has happened in Naivasha over the years is by courtesy of those people who came from Somaliland. They escorted the investors all the way through very dangerous environment and helped them settle and undertake development. Now that we are in an age of militarization, why do we have difficulties in exporting technology to Somalia in recognition of the fact that they brought us the white men who developed us? Now we are saying they are refugees, and that they should not be allowed to come to Kenya. We are now saying that our borders are very dangerous because Somalis are moving to and from various places. This is something they have done for a long time. I am not here to look at that border as being porous. I am here to look at ways in which we can, as Kenyans, develop systems that allow our institutions like universities to study their language and culture."
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