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    "id": 247563,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 245,
        "legal_name": "Abdallah Jumaa Ngozi",
        "slug": "abdallah-ngozi"
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am extremely disappointed by the statement by the Minister of State for Immigration and Registration of Persons. I come from a community, whose members are required to produce the birth certificates of their grandmothers and grandfathers for them to be issued with passports. For the Minister to have the audacity to say that Somalis steal passports is in line with the culture of this Government and the previous Government. Marginalised people will continue to be harassed when the Government is in trouble. The first thing that the Minister should have done when he stood up is to apologise to this nation for misleading us. He is telling us about an individual who stole passports in his Ministry. Those are trivial matters. We want serious issues pertaining to our security to be dealt with. I am very annoyed because when we moved the Motion of Adjournment to discuss the issue of the Armenians, we asked him to tell us how he was going to deal with the issues that we raised. He trivialised the matter by saying that people who owed the Armenians money are the ones who had brought the Motion to the House. He is now telling us that they have information that they should have taken the matter more seriously. These people who are to be investigated are nowhere. Who is going to bring them back? Whose word are we going to believe? Are we going to believe information from the Kenyans who are going to be harassed to give information or the accused persons who are not here? We have a June 13, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1307 very bad culture as a nation. First, as leaders, we do not accept our mistakes and apologise, and secondly, we do not want to step aside when we have made blunders. This is a culture that we must get rid of. This Government told us that its members will not work with powers from above. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am very interested to hear that the Ministry of Immigration and Registration of Persons has blank passports to be stolen. I have been told that my colleagues in Eastleigh at Garissa Lodge are the producers of the passports that are on sale. Now I am aware that the Minister is admitting that they also produce them for sale."
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