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    "id": 124075,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/124075/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Haji",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 26,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Mohammed Haji",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support this Motion with a lot of reservations. The reservations that I have weigh more than the support that I am going to give to this Motion. In the first place, history always guides human beings. The idea of having this kind of legislation was mooted in the western world and imported to Africa, Kenya included. The whole idea of having such an Act then was to target Islam simply because people like Osama Bin Laden and others were suspected of money laundering in order to support the cause they are following and yet over 99 per cent of the Muslims are not in support of what Osama Bin Laden and his group are doing, including whatever is happening in Somalia under Al Shabaab . Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the fact remains that many Islamic NGOs in this country were disbanded immediately when this kind of Motion was mooted. Up to this time, in Isiolo, there are institutions that were looking after orphans, which have been closed. Go to Garissa and many other places where these NGOs were supporting the communities. They were sent away. Admittedly, maybe, the people these NGOs were employing to come and run them were people of dubious character but the question is: There were very capable Kenyans who could have run those institutions. Why were those people given work permits to come and run those NGOs?"
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