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    "id": 287557,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M.H. Ali",
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        "legal_name": "Mohamed Hussein Ali",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we sympathise with the criminal activity that took place in Uganda; the loss of lives and property. We also commend Uganda for deploying their forces in Somalia to bring back sanity inside Somalia. However, that does not justify any contravention of the law. We have the Constitution that clearly stipulates - as already mentioned by the Mover and Seconder--- The Constitution takes care of how criminal activities should be dealt with. Kenya is a member of the East African Community. Uganda is also a member. But we do not know of any rendition treaty between Uganda and Kenya. The fact is that most of those suspects were arrested in Kenya. They were not arrested in Uganda. Had they been arrested in Uganda, that would have been a different matter all together. But quite a number of them were arrested in Kenya and surrendered without following due process. When our Committee sat with senior Government officials, including the then Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, they all denied knowledge of how the renditions were made. In fact, as was said earlier, the said Minister had actually said that those people who were behind the rendition should be arrested and arraigned in court. Kenya is a good neighbour to Uganda. Kenya cannot allow bad things to happen in Uganda. So, if our Government was very sincere, then due process should have been followed. After arresting those people in Kenya for suspicions of having a link with the terrorism action that took place in Kampala, Uganda, due process should have taken place. Our courts should have actually verified and ascertained whether those people had a hand in the criminal terrorism that took place in Kampala. After ascertaining that, that was actually the case, and then they could have been--- If there was an agreement between the two countries, after following the due process, then they could have been taken over to Uganda. But what also surprised us the most is that our own other citizens of Kenya, including some lawyers and some human rights activists including Al-Amin Kimathi, after they went to Uganda to ascertain the situation of those suspects in Kampala, they were arrested. Even after the international community demanded that those people should be released, they only released the lawyers and kept Al-Amin Kimathi captive for a long time. It was only due to the international pressure - not the Kenyan pressure - that Al-Amin Kimathi was later released without any charges."
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