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    "id": 101806,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musila",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Musila",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I also want to associate myself to the sentiments expressed by my colleagues in supporting this Bill. This Bill ought to have been enacted a long time ago. This country has experienced problems in crime. Even if one thinks that the crime is not organized, I want to believe that a lot of crime that is being committed in this country is organized. The robberies that we see in this country are organized. Recently, we have been witnessing people robbing security firms and no one knows where the funds go. Surely, this must be organized crime. When the Minister was moving the Bill, he alluded to the kidnappings which are now rampant in this country. We know that we have organized crimes. We have people trafficking drugs locally and internationally. If we were to go by the examples of other countries, it is time we addressed these issue of organized crime carefully because we know that some countries have suffered immensely owing to the neglect of organized crime. We know of mafias and as we speak, we know that Mexico is undergoing very serious problems of organized crimes and drugs. People are being killed and murdered every day. Human trafficking, prostitution and other crimes are rampant in this country. That is why I am saying that we ought to have introduced this Bill a long time ago. Oathing has been described in the Bill. We have heard stories where people take oaths to be bound to certain modes of crimes. It is not news in this country. It is very real. I want to take this opportunity to commend some members of the police force who have gallantly handled some of the organized crimes. We know that some of them"
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