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    "id": 6670,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 398,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wanted to bring up the issue of the demolitions that were done in my constituency yesterday. They are continuing today. You remember that you asked the Minister concerned to make a Ministerial Statement on the demolitions. More people have been displaced. There is more suffering and pain in the streets of Eastleigh South. I wanted the Minister responsible to respond to the issue of demolitions, and to the request that the demolitions should be suspended as investigations are being carried out by one of this House’s Committees, so as to allow the occupants opportunity because there is no indication that there has been any warning or notice that has been given. Amongst the many people affected are civil servants and police officers, who were out on duty when this thing happened. I think the Government has a responsibility towards its citizens. This is a Government that is attacking its own citizens, and impoverishing them, and creating Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). In the current climate that we have---"
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