{"id":34545,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/34545/?format=json","text_counter":335,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Namwamba","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":108,"legal_name":"Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba","slug":"ababu-namwamba"},"content":"We particularly want to know whether Mogadishu and Somalia has been abandoned because of being located on the African continent. It is not a light matter that we would see direct international engagements in countries that I have mentioned such as Afghanistan and Baghdad in Iraq and not have similar engagements. Is it because Somalia is on the African continent? I hope that the Minister will be bold enough to confront those issues in his Statement to this House."}