{"id":19559,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/19559/?format=json","text_counter":255,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Affey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":381,"legal_name":"Mohammed Abdi Affey","slug":"mohammed-affey"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister for Foreign Affairs is a lawyer and I know he has great passion. He has fought quite a number of battles for the people in the North. The Indemnity Bill that came here and which quite a number of people contributed to--- Actually, that Bill indemnified the police from any accusation, trial and complaint. It is a shame that that Act is still in our statutes. I brought a Bill here and we repealed it, but the President rejected it and returned it to Parliament for further discussion. It has been kept somewhere for almost a year and I do not know when it is going to find its way back to the Order Paper. So, that is the kind of history we have; of officers of Government who have been indemnified to do any crime under the sun. They kill, maim, rape and they are indemnified by the law. I am very passionate about this because we have a history of pain."}