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    "id": 190456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Farah",
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        "legal_name": "Farah Maalim Mohamed",
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    "content": "I have in mind the Director of the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS), the Governor of the Central Bank (CBK), the development partners who have come here and who have not done any other crime other than seeking investment opportunities in this country, and as a way of giving us an easier access to development in this country, because they have a lot of capital. That is also going to free us from the shackles of such other development partners like the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the rest of them who have colonised the Third World countries for ages. Let the Committee deal with the people who do not have the capacity or authority or the mandate to defend themselves, both inside the House and outside. Our security intelligence is a very sanctified institution in this country that we all need to have. It should be beyond reproach until such time that there is incontrovertible evidence for its officers to be victimized. The same thing applies to the Governor of CBK and the people who come to invest in this country. Everybody else who is able to defend himself, of course, has that opportunity and Parliament has the role to censure them. That provision is in our own books. That is my plea to the House. Let us know one thing: It is a precedent being set. When you are setting a precedent, do not only look at the moment, the events of the moment. Look at this thing as being for posterity and the kind of Parliamentary democracy we want to develop for our scrutiny role."
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