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"content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, this is a serious issue. It touches on our Constitution. It touches on the role of this Parliament here and the deployment of our forces. We must be consulted. It must report to us and I have video evidence of Saturday the 11th May. I am not crazy. The whole nation has seen it. I can present the video now of the Deputy President speaking saying that we deploy the forces the night before. They are on the ground now to disarm the militias â foreign and local. If you want, we can play the video now. We can be asked to table this video tomorrow or the next session. I have the Computer Disk (CD) of the same video of the Deputy President with a transcript of it saying the same. My point simply is that I respect the importance of security issues but I also want to protect the sanctity and importance of this House to be consulted on important matters and not to be trivialized. This is not video. This is not drama. Let us be serious and let us make sure that in the future even when there is an emergency that necessitates an immediate deployment, permission can be sought retroactively and consultation with the House done. That is all I beg and I ask to be respected by the Leader of the Majority Party because he is trivializing the issue and my evidence is just as true as his statement."
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