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    "id": 318722,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Noor",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very sad issue that we are discussing today. It is sad for this country that when women and children are killed, then we say as a Parliament that we have no responsibility. I think that is not the point. We have a responsibility as leaders of this country. If this Parliament does not have a responsibility to urge the Government, what is our oversight role? We should urge the Government and tell them that they have a responsibility to safeguard the security of the people and their properties, lives and livelihoods. That is why the President, the Executive and us, as Parliament, have sworn through the Constitution to stand firm to safeguard the Constitution. What does our Constitution tell us? That everybody has a right to life. That the security of this country is guaranteed 100 per cent and that we have a responsibility as a Parliament to do that oversight role. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, what is our oversight role today? It is to tell the Government and urge them that they must stop the problems we are having in Tana River in all ways; and all possible ways and means must be made to reach the Tana River people. We will not allow as leaders of this country to watch when Tana Delta women and children are killed. We cannot get an excuse and say that our armed forces are irresponsible and they will rape women. That is not the case. It is to safeguard that place. People are dying, houses are being burnt, our people are being killed like animals and we"
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