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    "id": 247599,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Anybody who does not feel the shame of this incident does not have a patriotic feeling. These two Armenians have brought incredible shame to this country. If you recall, in the 1970s, mercenaries launched coup plots in the Comoros and Seychelles from Kenya, supported by a one-time Attorney-General. The culture of impunity and indifference to matters of national importance has to come to an end. While the deportation of these two Armenians, on the face of it, is legal under the Immigration Act, but when you look at the circumstances surrounding it, these Armenians committed offences. They could have been charged with violating security at the airport, being armed in a prohibited place, in possession of Government stores and forged passports. They were also in possession of GK number plates and being in this country illegally. Above all, they had committed serious security breaches that go to the very root of our Government. It is regrettable that these people were deported. What happens in other jurisdictions is that such people would have been charged and convicted. If convicted, they would have served their sentences and thereafter be deported. This is what is done all over the world. However, it is now spilt milk. What we, as a House, must stand up today and say loud and clear is that we should not have such cases repeated in this country. We should not have suspicious foreigners coming into this country, swaggering in the streets like Rambo and getting away with it. We must protect our country in the future. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us not mourn the past; let us be wiser from this event and look to the future and say, let it never happen again. I beg to support."
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