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    "content": "Thank you very much madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Anti-Terrorism Bill which eventually never saw the light of day, certain communities in this country were facing a lot of subjugation, a lot of harassment for actual implementation of laws that were not in existence at that particular time. I understand the theme of this particular Bill. It has a very good theme, but my concern is implementation. I fear that this will actually be legitimizing what has been happening in the past. Quite a number of orphans and religious institutions today have collapsed in North Eastern Province. This is simply because legitimate sources of funds that were coming to them, philanthropically, have now been cut. How do we differentiate the legitimate and dirty money that will be coming into this country? I feel there are enough laws in this country now to actually contain dirty money and money laundering. If we are serious in implementing, the Member who contributed before me here was right when he said we have enough laws if we only seriously implement to contain dirty money in this country. The question is, what is the purpose of this? As far as I am concerned, we are only implementing this to serve external interests. This will only target the specific areas which we have expressed today here. Many of us, will not target. It is the double standards that I fear for implementation that will go against the interests of many communities in this country. There are so many small businesses that are run in this country, but which are clean. I feel that this Bill when enacted as a law, will victimize those businesses. It is through this conscience or feeling that I have expressed what I have expressed. I beg to oppose."
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