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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.M. Ali",
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        "legal_name": "Ali Mohamud Mohamed",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, my clarification is--- I know you are under pressure. However, I seek your indulgence because this matter is very sensitive. You will recall the kind of massacre we experienced and we need to get to the bottom of this matter. Time and again, I have written, personally, to the Ministry asking for beefing up of security in certain locations by appointing police reservists. If the people of Adadi Sub-location had police reservists, because they saw the eight people who committed these crimes, they would have intercepted them. After waiting for the Government for too long and having given up, the Constituencies Development Fund office in Moyale has built Administration Police posts. Up to now Administration Police officers have not been posted to the posts. Why is this the case? It is because the Government is dragging its feet. Following the dispute in Ethiopia, which I am told the Ethiopian Government has contained now, 60 illegal guns are in Moyale today. The 60 illegal guns are the ones which were used to massacre the three innocent lives at Odha yesterday morning. The DC was informed and he has dragged his feet up to today; nothing has been done by the Government. When will the Government repatriate those foreigners to their country? Why has it taken too long? I suspect, as much as there have been chaos in Ethiopia--- It does not convince me at all that they could just come and target those people there. Some people have prepared to cause anarchy and make Moyale or the county generally unmanageable. There are clear leads which the Government - if it is serious – can follow and bring the culprits to book. We are not convinced as Members of Parliament from that region and we are not prepared to allow our people to go the same route that they went. We are going into an election year; 2012 is just next door. Some people are prepared to cause anarchy and in the confusion wish to benefit. We will not sit down and watch as this unfolds. As Mr. Chachu, the Member for North Horr said, the DC was invited after the first incidence to come and preside over a peace meeting. The DC did not attend. We were told when the PC was there, two days ago, that both communities were in agreement on that. If this Government is serious, that DC should not have spent a night the following day in Moyale because it is volatile. We are not prepared to see our people massacred again. We need you to do something urgently. We need you to convince us. There are other issues where some people have taken the lives of innocent people for granted. There are civil servants who are not doing their job properly. What is the Assistant Minister and the Government by extension doing?"
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