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    "id": 84972,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/84972/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "I want to finish by supporting this Report and recommending that it should be translated into a policy statement. We can see whether the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security can look at it further and refine it. The challenge of a failed state in Somalia is the challenge of Kenya. We wish it was not so. But we have to accept it as a reality. We have goods coming in. In Somalia today, there is no national authority. The longest coastline in Africa is found in Somalia. There is a possibility of substandard goods finding their way into Kenya. We need to help the Somalis find a credible strong government. That can be done within the umbrella of the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU). The AU has now appointed the former President of Ghana, Mr. Jerry Rawlings, to become a special envoy on matters of the AU in Somalia. We want, as a country - and we must do it - engage those leaders. We want to thank Uganda because it has deployed its troops. They are paying the price with the blood of the Ugandan boys and girls who are in Mogadishu today. We congratulate them. We feel hurt that people can go to Uganda and kill thousands of innocent Ugandans. Therefore, for us to stop the nonsense, we must re-emphasize our strategy and make sure that sufficient political goodwill is taken."
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