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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you had a lot of frustration earlier on. I agree with your ruling that this is a Motion coming from the Committee. But those issues are germane. The issues of land, the emotive nature and the substantive nature of that cannot be gainsaid. So, it is very critical that we deal with them with the seriousness that they deserve. In fact, from before Independence up to the fight for Independence, throughout the Majimbo debates of the 1960s and 1970s, up to the politically instigated clashes, and the fiasco we had in the last elections, the root cause of all those can be traced one way, or the other to land, and the issue of land. Indeed, in most other countries, for example, in the South African case, land is so huge that when they were doing their Constitution reform process, they took a different approach so that other issues could be discussed, debated and finalized, and then later, have a special time to deal with land. These are the issues that the Committee and Members of the House are asking; that now that the House has been put in this position, the Constitution allows for a window which should be utilized very sparingly, in only special circumstances. We should utilize that mechanism to allow for more debate for purpose of this House passing. Members of this House are not a rubberstamp for the Executive. They do not wait for the Executive to do its work, for Cabinet to concoct something together, and then come pass them through here, one afternoon so that we say we have passed Bills. What we want is for the House to have sufficient time to deliberate, interrogate and digest these proposals, so that the people who elected these Members, who are waiting for them to exercise that sovereignty can know that that sovereign power has been exercised deliberately; it has been exercised after due judicial process has taken place through the deliberation of Members."
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