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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the interest of time, I think I will conclude in very few minutes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Motion because the Chairman of the AMANI Forum, hon. Ethuro, happens also to be my chairman in many other quarters. I know that his intentions are well meant for the people of the greater Sudan and Southern Sudan. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, however, in supporting the Motion, we need to see as a country how far we can go. This country has invested so much in peace in Sudan. It has been an arbitrator between the North and South and we cannot allow anything that jeopardizes the standing of this nation in trying to bring peace in the whole of Africa. I have heard contributions that there are Members of Parliament who went to Sudan on their own volition. I have sought a Ministerial Statement in that regard and to date, we do not even know whether these Members of Parliament went there on their own volition as Members expressing their own interests or it was even a Government delegation. This is because what I understand is that the delegation was even led by the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs. This even looks like an Executive excursion. So, I think there are issues we cannot take for granted. The foreign policy of this country has to be safeguarded. Anything that suggests otherwise; that this country is leaning towards one entity, will jeopardize the standing of this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we wish the people of Southern Sudan well, but it is up to them to decide whether they want to secede or they want a united Sudan. It is not for us to go and advise them to go either way, because we do not want them to blame us in later years - ten or 20 years down the line - that they were advised to go this or that way by Kenya. That is a sovereign nation and it is up to the people of Sudan to decide what they want to do. We would only urge them to conduct a peaceful referendum, whether they want to go “No” for a secession or “Yes”, that is their business. It is not the business of this nation, the Members of this Parliament, Executive and Ministers to go and campaign in Southern Sudan; to ask the people of Sudan to either vote a “Yes” or “No” in the referendum. It is purely their business. I think the foreign policy of this nation has to be safeguarded and more so, by those who are entrusted to lead the foreign policy of this nation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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