Parliamentary debate on the ex-foreign minister’s arrest collapsed into accusations of defending a traitor

Evidence

The discussion of the arrest of the ex-minister of Foreign Affairs was lengthy and heated because of an error made by the president of parliament, Sh. Moctar, who claimed the events necessitated limited questions to be put to the government on the case and after the reply of the government that no one would be allowed to speak! … Egal has not brought anything new and therefore there was still much to argue about, but for the lack of will to not appear to defend the traitor, no one wanted to speak. I, however, had to speak and criticized Haji Mussa Bagor, who in his speech stigmatized anyone who would try to defend a man who was considered guilty of being a traitor only because he was a deputy. Haji Mussa either did not understand anything or he spoke in bad faith because no one defended the accused but only tried to understand the truth of the justification of the arrest in relation to the immunity of parliamentarians. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 982

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The arrest of the ex-foreign minister raised a parliamentary immunity dispute — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 982
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The arrest of the ex-foreign minister raised a parliamentary immunity dispute — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 982