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    "id": 84274,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/84274/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "I am standing here to persuade this House to adopt ways and means by which people who are in Kenya and who were specialists in various fields like geomapping, entrepreneurship and other skills can be asked to bring what they have in Somalia and then encourage investment. It is through investment that you will have a stable Somalia. I want to declare my interest under Standing Order No.81. I did work for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the policy then in the 1980s was that they should make very many Kenyans rich, because when you have very many rich people around they cannot encourage bombardment, destruction of resources and so forth. What we need to do, as a Government, is not necessarily creating territories that will act as a buffer. We should look at ways and means of connecting Nairobi by use of a fast train all the way to Mogadishu. I do not want to be seen to be emotional about this thing; but once you have a very good network of water, internet and everything else you will see Kenyans investing in Somalia; nobody will hear stories about the Al Shaabab . Everybody in the world knows that in order to have lasting peace you do not need to use force. Dr. Kurt Waldheim was very categorical; he said that peace, according to him, at that particular time when he was the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), was nothing more than a balance of fear between the East and the West. We could balance long range missiles and shortage range missiles. By doing so, we will be balancing fear which interprets it to peace. However, we can still achieve a lasting peace by allowing Somalis to invest in Kenya. We could allow our companies in Kenya to invest in infrastructure in Somalia. That way, they will soon see the need for democratically elected Government and do away with the buffer zone. On the issue of refugees, of course, many people including myself, have never been refugees. But just like a bird, they will patch where there is peace. We have over 10,000 IDPs but that is not Somalia. They patch in Naivasha because it is peaceful. Now that Kenya is peaceful, why do we not use that facility that we have that creates peace, so that we can extend that peace and harmony to our border?"
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