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    "id": 976784,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Farhiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Farhiya Ali Haji",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I wish to thank Sen. Iman for bringing this timely issue. The American Embassy has raised alerts before, and on two occasions, they have turned out to be true. They raised an alert on the Garissa University attack. The problem we have is that we act late when Kenyans’ lives have been lost. Can we take this terror issue seriously? Madam Temporary Speaker, the other issue is that sometimes terrorists might want to show us that they are targeting some hotels in Nairobi, while in actual sense, they are targeting hotels in Mombasa. This is the time we need to check these things properly. Madam Temporary Speaker, I come from a community where terrorists have terrorised us to the extent that we now run the risk of our children lacking education. As we speak today, it is volunteers who just keep children in the classrooms in northern Kenya with no learning activity going on. The terror issue is real, and it affects the people of northern Kenya more than anybody else. We do not want to discuss the issue of terror attacks now and one or two days later, it happens in a hotel, banking hall or wherever. It is high time that our security agencies took this matter of terror attacks seriously. Even in that alert on terror attacks, I saw that the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is targeted. If JKIA is targeted, we cannot imagine the economic impact it will have to this country while we are trying to market ourselves as an economic hub for flights from different destinations. Our security agencies need to be alert this time round. Otherwise, the CS should resign if something happens in this country, yet we had a terror alert early enough and he never acted on it. It is high time that issues are taken seriously in this country and dealt with according to the needs. We do not wish to lose lives in this country, because we have lost enough. In Garissa, we lost 142 innocent lives, yet the American Embassy had issued the same alert before. Therefore, this is not a matter of who had a jurisdiction to raise that alert. The bottom line is that there is an issue, and it needs to be addressed. This time round, there is need for consequences if this is not tackled. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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