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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Farah",
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        "legal_name": "Farah Maalim Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to join my colleagues, hon. Members, who talked before me in also commending the Committee for having done a good job. We are trying to reform our country. We are in a reform era. A reform era is essentially not supposed to be a role for the conformist kind of a person. We need minds that are so radical that most of us will feel uncomfortable with them. I am impressed. I am happy that the team we have here will do that job. I am also very happy that somebody like Ahmednassir--- I am not standing here to defend AhmedNassir or to support him, because he comes from my community. As a matter of fact, I can tell you that we disagree more often than we agree. One thing is that precisely because of his ability to disagree with everybody, and only agree with the best logical analysis that one can advance, we need him here. He is also principled. There is no question about that. This is a man who was appointed as the chairman of the anti- corruption body here and resigned because he felt there was derogation from the laws of this land. The kind of claims that were made against him, were by and large from interested parties. For example, the Committee, in its own wisdom, while it was evaluating the claims that were made against Mr. Ahmednassir did indicate that the affidavit by Emily Wangari was frivolous since no further action was taken on the same, and that the evidence to support the charges was never corroborated by anyone else other than the Attorney-General. Mr. Ahmednassir is so independent and democratic that he will write about the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, the President of this country and anybody. He has written about the Attorney-General and that we know very well. There is no love lost between the two of them. I respect the Attorney-General for his own way of doing things. The suit containing the affidavit was a case filed against other persons, and Mr. Ahmednassir was not legally enjoined. The alleged offences were never committed by the nominee and the nominee’s name was tabled in the House for approval. The matter is concluded and no further issues should arise. Hon. Members, I support this and say, let us pass the Motion as it is."
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