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    "id": 318649,
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    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will follow your instructions but as far this debate is concerned and this Motion, where I felt that there was the need to say the truth, I have said and I stand by it. We all have responsibility as leaders to ensure that if a section of this country is burning and there are those of us who have a problem or feel that those responsible are involved and the debate comes to the Floor of this House, we must have the freedom to mention where the truth is. What is taking place is sort of “scorched earth policy”. What I wonder is the root cause of this problem. As we urge the Government to deploy our KDF, we must also find out the root cause of this problem. We must approach it from a multipronged perspective because the Tana Delta has a history. These communities have lived together for centuries. Why now? Why this scale of violence? Does it have any connection with the plan that was there to create the sugar project in that area, which the pastoralists were opposed to while the farmers were in support? Is it that? What is the background? Why do these farmers and pastoralists fight at this point in time, centuries after living together? We must, therefore, find the root cause of the problem besides getting out there to contain the situation. The Military can only go there and create an atmosphere peaceful enough for further investigations into the conflict but it is not an end in itself. Therefore, we must get to the root cause of the problem and we urge the local leadership to help authorities to get to the bottom of this problem. For those of us who are the local leadership and who are involved, I urge, please, spilling blood will not necessarily sustain their leadership. Desist from that! With that I support with amendments. The Attorney-General indicated that Parliament cannot in itself initiate deployment of our forces and that is why I felt that, probably, we need to have the Motion amended to read that: “Following the unrest and instability of the Tana Delta for the past few weeks, this House urges the deployment of the KDF.” This is so that it is not seen that it is the House that is initiating deployment but rather that the House is urging so that the Executive can now formally ask for its authority or approval to deploy. With those few remarks, I support the amendment."
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