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    "id": 68429,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. A. Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to confirm that I was a Member of the Select Committee investigating the death of Dr. Ouko. I only joined the Committee after three other Members objected to being Members of that Committee because of the proceedings and how the Chair was carrying them out. Upon joining this Committee, we had a lot of debate about the unprocedural nature and the unpreparedness of our Committee in handling the investigations. In fact, we felt that the officer who was attached to us from the Attorney-General’s Chambers was not assisting us in asking questions and getting information from the witnesses who came before us. In addition, when we finally reached the point of writing the report, there was disagreement in our Committee in that some of the recommendations were not supported by the evidence that we had received. It is because of that, that report did not reach the Floor of this House. It is my opinion, therefore, that wanting to adopt a report of a Committee whose membership had problems with its accuracy, is not a fair process. We would be doing injustice to the next investigation that would take place to conclude the investigations on the death of Dr. Ouko. We will be doing a disservice by allowing this House to adopt a report that we had issues with. In fact, at some point, the Chair of the Committee was very mad with his political party and said that they had disowned him by not allowing the report to be prioritized and brought to the House. I really would like to urge the House not to vote for this report, because we would be adopting inaccuracies. This would divert the attention of the investigators into this very serious crime to the wrong direction. I support that thorough investigations should take place. In fact, some of the evidence that we got in camera needs to be followed. But the House as constituted and any Committee that we constitute cannot deal in a thorough manner with some of the allegations that we heard, especially those in camera. I do not believe that adopting this report would aid this process. With those few remarks, I beg to oppose."
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