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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Affey",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Affey",
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    "content": "2932 the Chair. I had an opportunity to work with him, Amb. Kiplagat. He has experience and the necessary qualifications as a Kenyan to lead this. Besides, the list was brought before the House, we discussed it and we approved it as the Kenya National Assembly. The Amani Forum, which we want to establish formally, needs to go out and see how it can help this Commission. Blame game and trying to derail processes that we have established will not help us. It is not that every Kenyan who is given a job is absolutely perfect. However, there is need to build on that. The Amani Forum has the rare privilege to reach out to this Commission and get out to the countryside and reconcile the Kenyan people. This is what is expected of us, as leaders. Therefore, I would like the Kenyan people to stop the debate on whether this person is suitable for this job because the more we discuss it, the more we undermine the achievement of a Commission like that which this House passed. There is no single Kenyan that we can say is absolutely perfect. We do not have a Nelson Mandela or a Desmond Tutu here. Every other person we give an assignment in this country will have one group or the other blaming him. I just want to challenge the Amani Forum to see whether together with this Committee and this Parliament, we can begin to heal this country and reconcile the Kenyan people. I want to speak on the issue of Somalia where I had an opportunity to serve as the Kenya’s Ambassador there. That country is bleeding and the more it bleeds, the more it continues to impact negatively on the economy and security of Kenya. I would like to suggest that the Amani Forum--- As Mr. Imanyara has said, they played a fundamental role in the resolution of the crisis in Tanzania. They also played the same role in Congo. Somalia is just next door. The Kenyan people have full trust. They are trusted more than any other people. The Kenyan Parliament in Somalia today has absolute trust of the Somalia population. They do not trust other regional parliaments the way they trust the Kenyan Parliament and the Kenyan people. This is because we have never gone to interfere with the internal matters. Therefore, we are a credible group and they can listen to us. I would like to suggest to the Amani Forum, the Kenyan Chapter, to play an aggressive role a more robust role and see how the situation in Somalia can come to an end. This can be done. What is happening there is not only a Somalia problem. The situation in Somalia is so internationalized that many other countries are involved. However, if we are not interested, the situation in Somalia will engulf us if it has not already done so. We have a 1,300 kilometers security challenge border which is very difficult for any government to patrol. Therefore, we must see how we can empower the transitional institutions in Somalia. The Amani Forum Kenya can play the diplomatic role because what we require is a group of leaders from this region who are not interested in the internal dynamics of Somalia, who will go out and say that we need to build institutions because what is lacking are the institutions."
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