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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to lend my support to Mr. Kapondi’s request. More importantly, a few months back when things went out of hand in Tana River and specifically Tana Delta, we thought that the regular police, the administration police and the GSU were unable to deal with the problems in Tana Delta effectively. We as Members of Parliament from that region requested for the deployment of the military but the Executive arm of this Government turned our request down and said that they are in a position to deal with the situation without calling in the military. It called for a problem of a higher calibre for them to be able to deploy the military and they declined. This was a request which was put forward by this House which was almost supported unanimously that the military be deployed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to ask which type of government would turn down the request of a whole House on a position maybe that they can deal with, then from the blues, they unleash the terror of the military on innocent citizens in Garissa, Eastleigh and now in Baragoi. This Government has to tell us whether as a House we have no voice; whether as the representatives duly elected by the public out there - and our term has not yet expired - this Government has to know that the Executive cannot act on its own volition and will; the way they desire and when they desire. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason as to why we should ask the committees to investigate this matter is because the Executive wants to move with speed and cover up the situations that are happening in Eastleigh and Garrissa in a purported investigation that they want to carry out. You cannot entrust the same people who unleashed terror on citizens to conduct investigations on their own actions and report that. We cannot do that. What has happened in Garissa and Eastleigh is too weighty to be left to the arm of Government that has no regard for the law and has breached the Constitution. They could do a cover-up. I call upon the Chair to direct that these committees move with speed and we bar any investigation from the Executive side because we know they do not have good intentions so that we get to the root cause of the matter and at least we have an amicable solution so that we do not have flagrant disregard of the Constitution."
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