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    "id": 323701,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/323701/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. I.E. Mohamed",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 82,
        "legal_name": "Mohamed Ibrahim Elmi",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to support the Motion. I want to thank Dr. Khalwale for taking leadership. I hope the intitiative will remove the suspicion among the affected communities. The Committee will then report back to Parliament and make recommendations to the Government. As the other Members have said, we have a new constitutional order. The institutions that we are establishing must begin to perform. I heard people say that the situation might blow up any time. I think we need to tell Kenyans that there is no excuse for anything to blow up. There is no excuse for you to take a panga or kill your relatives. We must tell the public that it will not happen. They will not be allowed to engage in that. We are saying that in the new constitutional order, this thing called “blanket Government” is not there. The police are the mandated authority to ensure law and order is kept. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I agree with all the other Members that inflammatory statements should be stopped. Of course, I do not agree with Mr. Midiwo who wants to take us back to the days when the Head of State could jail you without trial. We have the Land Commission now. If you do not get administrative justice, we have the Ombudsman office now. If there is an institution of this Government that is not performing and people do not have money to go to court, the Commission on Administrative Justice is in place. I urge this House to support the formation of that institution. The National Cohesion and Integration Commission is doing excellent work. We must extend its term. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, all Kenyans cannot have land. Also, we do not have small land. There are some Kenyans who still think about Kenya in a very small map of 20 per cent. We have huge chunks of land in this country with huge potential, if only we can see the whole of Kenya. Therefore, I fully support this, but I ask that we try to diffuse all the things that exist and allow the institutions that have been created to take"
}