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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This nation is owed an apology by this Government because it was misled in March this year. The consequences, when the nation was misled on the raid on the Standard newspaper is that a number of international institutions suspended aid to this country including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and many others. Kenyans were ridiculed and treated to insecurity at levels we have never seen before. We were also told about investments in hot air and because of all this, this nation is owed an apology by this Minister and his Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when the whistle blower on these two individuals talked about the existence of mercenaries, he was vilified in this House. He was accused of merely trying to avoid paying his loans and so forth, and we need this Government to apologise to him. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of terrorism, all the acts that have been mentioned by my colleagues really point to suspected terrorism. When you look at gun running, contraband goods and false nationalities, it is evident that these are people who in any other country in the world would be suspected of being involved in terrorism. This same Minister who said that this Government was \"rattled\" by a harmless article in a newspaper and had to order a raid on the same cannot today say he is not \"rattled\" at all by the national airport in this country being attacked in the manner that it has been done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, all these actions of these two men revolve around two people who none of these Ministers would want to mention. They keep talking about influence peddlers and using other languages, but we want to be told the truth about them. I want to thank His Excellency the President for coming out clearly and saying that one NARC activist by the June 13, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1311 name Wambui and her daughter known as Wangui have no relationship with the President. If, indeed, they have no relationship, why are those people \"sacred cows\" in this country because they are the people who have made these two individuals be what they are in this country? We need to be told who they are. Why are they enjoying Government security, vehicles and protection if indeed they are not people who have any role in this country? Unless we resolve that issue, we will have other Artur Margaryans coming in tomorrow and this Government will still be left helpless. Due to their involvement in all this gun running, drug peddling and so forth, I want to argue as the representative of Mandera Central that the District Criminal Investigation Officer (DCIO), Mombasa Port, who was from my constituency and who was killed in February this year because of tracing such containers that we are being told of, was most probably a victim of this same kind of individual garb we have seen. I support."
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