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    "id": 324145,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I join you in congratulating the new Minister for being appointed to that docket. May I also thank him for the initiative he has taken in the last couple of days in trying to bring consensus around this Bill. Because of that, I am comfortable in supporting that we pass this Bill. This Bill is critical because it deals with a critical issue. It is a very critical Bill because it also deals with quite a number of rights enumerated in our Constitution. I join an hon. Member who said that he is comfortable with passing this Bill, one, because of our new Constitution and, two, because of a new Judiciary. It also gives me great comfort that the rights of our people are protected by the Constitution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, under the supremacy clause, the Constitution is supreme to all the laws. The rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, the largest chapter in our Constitution, are there for good irrespective of what this House does. This House must pass laws that agree with the Constitution. The reason quite a number of us were worried about this Bill, even while I support, is that the Bill is limiting quite a number of those rights, for example, the right to privacy, the right to property, the right to fair trial, the right of the accused and even to some extent, the presumption of innocence. The broad issue is that because of the nature of this crime, there is a possibility that we are lowering the requirements we have of our investigative and prosecutorial authorities in order to help them address these ill. The law enforcement agencies are human beings and often times all over the world, laws of this nature then get used for other offences. For example, in certain countries where politicians and political parties get harassed under laws that were prepared for terrorism or journalists get arrested under laws that were set up for terrorists. For purposes of legislative history, we hope that this Parliament’s intent is very clear that"
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