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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Our Minister who spoke earlier on, talked about the good work they have done with regard to security and also talked about deportation. Deportation is not a good thing for us as a nation. We have our own judiciary. Our Judiciary is not under the control of any other country. It should not be under the control of any other country! We have, as we speak, not less than 18 Kenyans, of all tribes, who today are languishing in jails in Ethiopia, America and other countries because of our failure to prosecute people whom we suspect are terrorists and our failure to charge them in court. We keep on deporting them out because Americans have said that we must deport them. That is the fact that has made me say that we have given up our sovereignty. We have a Judiciary and it should not be subordinate to the interests of other countries. So, in that regard, our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has failed. However, in all other respects, I am happy with their performance but they should not allow that kind of thing. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to Somalia, it is unfortunate that after doing so much and spending billions to bring Somalia together, the last minute, we succumbed to the pressure from the US, and we threw out the baby with the bath water. Today, we have a country that is in ruins. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not think it deserves the attention of our foreign Minister to travel there to go and close or attend the closing ceremony of that reconciliation meeting because in our view, that meeting did not invite all the parties who include the 35 Members of Parliament who were thrown out in Djibouti. The Islamic Court Union and other interested parties were not invited and today, we want to go and grace that occasion when as far as I am concerned it is a waste of time. Tomorrow, you will see that the situation there will continue to move from bad to worse. The work we did there has gone to waste because we succumbed to pressure from the United States Embassy. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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