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Nigeria Federal Minister of Women Affairs who
d You Kennedy o Na, has continued

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war of words with the Speaker of
Nia ten House of Assembly, Amblami Sakindaji

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over the speaker alleged attempt to sponsor
and marry of about one hundred girls said

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maybe on the age offhans whose parents
were killed by brandits in Nija State.

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Shortly after, the Speaker of the
nias tent House of Assembly, Abulamlik Sakindaji

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or the nice press conference on Tuesday
to react to the Minister’s petition to the

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Inspector General of Police over his plans
to marry of one hundred often girls.

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The minister also organized the press conference
Sunday and alleged that the senior Lomika is

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married of the offense she described as
people upon long age as constituency projects for

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his people. Speaking as a press
conference on Tuesday, the Speaker said he

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has concerned the plan hosting of the
wedding of one hundred often girls in his

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constituency, saying he would not grace
the occasion. Saki na Jitu would decision

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following the action of the Women Affairs
Minister with you Kennedy o Nna who brought

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him to court. The speaker,
who insisted that he did initiate the marriage

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move, said he was approached by
traditional rulers and clerics to sponsor the projects.

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Saki Daji also said those who acclaiming
the girls have been subjected to abuses

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to carry out an investigation and hold
those responsible for if not him. He

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also said his motive for wanting to
sponsor the wedding was because families of the

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girls are poor. He also said
he’s not using it as a constituency project.

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The speaker said he was never contacted
for clarity what conclusions were drawn over

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the matter. The speaker Nija State’s
House of Assembly Abdumannik Safindergy. The speaker

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said the Minister of Women appears who
ching Kennedy or an a nation investigate the

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claims of child rights abuse. Sakinagist
tested this wilde briefing journalists at the House

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of Assembly Complex Vena, the Naija
States capital. He expressed the spledguo over

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the Minister’s position regarding the mass wedding
and his support to offhans whose parents are

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not able to meet marital expenses.
Visibly upset with the negative media reports attributed

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to the minister. The Speaker said
he was never contacted for clarity, but

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conclusions were drawn over the matter.
This comes a day after the Minister condemned

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the proposed marriages, stating that they
will left the child rights up and raise

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serious concerns about the ages and consents
of the girls involved. She petitioned the

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Inspector Generally of Police IGP card Agtoku
secretly support to stop the plant marriage by

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the Speaker. Kennedy or Renea also
filed for a court in junction to stop

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the plan marriage of one hundred offense
said to be children by the Speaker.

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According to her, the decision became
necessary to stop the plan of the Speaker

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to marry young girls due to the
increasing number of offense married to bandits.

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Would you Kennedy or Na in the
counterpress conference on Tuesday, insistent that the

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edge of offense is unrone and the
offense lost their parents to attacks committed by

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bundits and comphasize the need for ulster
conders to care more about the future of

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the children rather than pushing them into
early marriage that they follow making their chances

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of getting a bright future. The
ministers started in court below. Worried by

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imaging developments from Nia States, I
engaged the media today to express the concerns

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of the Ministry over the proposed plan
by the Speaker of Nia States House of

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Assembly at Bumlisak Energy to marry off
about one hundred funeral offense who lost their

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appearance to banditary attacks in Marical local
government area. For me, it’s not

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a personal issue, but to me
are concerned about the entire process complying with

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our constitutional provision Bond Minimum Edge of
Marriage and the Child Rights Up two thousand

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and three which sends the age of
marriage at eighteen years old. And since

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we don’t know the aigatures of the
girls who areligned off for the Closter marriages

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on the twenty fourth of My twenty
twenty four, the Ministry has initiated legal

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process of course injunctions to put the
proposed ceremony on hold wide we get proper

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clarifications. The Office of the Inspector
General or Police has also been engaged for

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money to carry out investigations. And
the whole essence is to avoid pushing the

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girls into marriages that are not conducive
to guarantee their certy and future the Ministry

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expects the speaker to identify ways of
putting the girls through skills, apposition,

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sustainable empowerment and ploment just to ensure
that the socio economic status of the girls

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is guaranteed. I am not treckted
by the Minister’s actions. That must be

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very very clear. The Minister didn’t
know how I won my election. She

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didn’t know how I duwed my political
career to this change. The minister is

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not from the note. I will
never admit the minister, probably except with

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one day I will contest for the
president of the Coultity. So as it

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is right now, I’m not trecting
by the actual of the minister, and

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whatever this press released would degenerate that
just for the Minister to handle. I

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have told you I’m a good summary
to a respect the freedult of me.

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I’m a product of this administration and
I’m apusy for that matter. The Minister

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didn’t know what I’ve been doing for
my consequent I’m not going back already.

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I have given out my support to
those parents through those traditional and religious institutions,

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and I’ve told you that I’m not
going to claim me back. I

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have wanted to grace the occasion,
but now I will not I will know

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the claim. Whatever donations have given, it is never from any consequency project.

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The minister should please find out who
who I am. Let’s let her

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find out that force in the first
place, and how I’ve been supportive to

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my people since the last fifteen years. Let’s have find out how I’ve been

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supportive today. So this is a
good gesture. The people of the community

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came to me with this help.
I have helped them. If the minister

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has an issue with that, please
let her send her team to my constituency.

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Let her send her team to my
local government so that they can bring

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out those true brend for her.
I don’t know them, like I’ve told

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you. Their appeal came to me
true traditional institutions and traditional leaders. There

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is the minister trying to say those
people don’t know what they’re doing and it

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was born out of one I say
said that I give to a woman who

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has lost a worse man to find
the three now our children have the majority

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to get money. But she does
not help the ministry upset the marriage expressies.

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If that woman had the wisdom to
communicate all together across to me then

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won’t happened to other family that shared
different experiences but do not have the needs

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to get across to me, It’s
probably what the traditional rulers felt they should

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come in to appeal to me.
They appealed, and I have had them

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their Now, whoever I think a
child is going to aduse, I’m not

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aware of it. So they have
that to contend with the religious leader and

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the traditional institution that are appealed to
me to assist them, and I did

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to. Contrary to what I have
just mentioned, there would be a serious

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lego battle between he and Minister of
Women Affairs and the men every word of

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it. If you intend to help
these children, help them in a way

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to be economically beneficial to them,
because if they decide to get married,

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I have no rights as a minister
to stop them, but I must carry

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out investigation and make sure that they
actually want to get married before you can

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give them out what their constituency project. Thank you, my brother for being

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so kind to give us consistency projects
and sponsor children that they don’t have nobody

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to talk for them. They don’t
have a voice. But don’t forget every

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child belongs to the states. So
the government could lend them a voice to

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speak. So please, there’s a
court case by tomorrow. Because I heard

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about it that night, I was
able to gather myself together, myself together

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today to file the case. By
tomorrow they will be served and then we’ll

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come out to court. The Minister
Women Affairs, we come here, we

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come we bad to look legally because
I try to speak to a few of

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them and the way they were talking
twenty fort is by the corner and I

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can’t give this chance for these complications
to come on this children. So the

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Speaker don’t try to go and do
any marriage for anybody on the twenty fourth

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until all the clarifications are made clearer. To my genails. Because I can’t

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even speak, Nagelas are bombarding me
with text messages, videos, write hops,

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very angry. Why should this happen? Let us do the right thing,

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because Speaker cannot give out on children
without their consent or giving them out

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to the normal people that are meant
to marry them. So we will make

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sure that these girls are getting married
to people they could leave it more people

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that will end up killing them.
As we have cases today of people they

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cut off their hands from their wrists. Many cases I get in this office,

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they cut off their hands from the
wrist. I feel I feel like

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shedding tears each time I think about
it, and I don’t want this to

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continue. I don’t want these girls’
lives being jupidized. So please put a

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bold on whatever you’re doing on the
twenty fourth until we startle our case bought

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in court, police at every ay
where we need to go to make sure

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proper verification is done on the issue
of consents and willingness to get married.

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I have offered to help these children, to get them, empower them,

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take care of them in any little
way the government can. And I know

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the President who supports this because he
said I allow the part to breathe.

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How would they breathe if you are
imposing anything on them? Where are their

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rights? Thank you Nigerians and remember
just one, we have such a large

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number of girls and farms. What
the realest people doing to help the force.

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But such people not take advantage of
There’s no way we know whady a

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few we are getting which four girls
are call We are doing our best way

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to kiss them. If we knew
they were there, wh would have done

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something. Now I’ve found out.
I’m going to go to the abilities,

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empower them and empowered the communities.
I’ve already done that in fististics, including

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the same nistic, but I don’t
know whether they are. Community is part

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of the people they give Some of
sustainable department machines were sent today, but

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we sent some apartment machines to fifteen
sticks, including majestics, and we intend

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to take it to every community in
the country, so we wouldn’t know.

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I thought that the man mentioned it. I would alone if you have an

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idea. That is where the investigation
comes in, because it kept mentioning is

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giving out on their girls to and
sponsoring their downs. You never agreed to

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mention their hates. Just said when
they’re accidentally television yesterday he said they are

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both eighteen. We have to find
out even if it takes me going to

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bone bone lab test. That is
where you got to use to determine somebody.

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I would go to that except to
make sure that those kills are matured,

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and that is with their constants that
have been developed exact child marriage,

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child marriage, all that child’s rights. There are certain rights of these children.

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So whatever we’re using is all that
child’s rights where you’re supposed to get

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the consent of somebody before you give
the person out for marriage, and you’re

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supposed the person is supposed to be
of age. And again more forstful marriage,

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you can’t trust them. So I
can’t call it firstful marriage there because

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I’m there to carry age investigations.
So I went for an injunction to stop

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him from that day. He wants
to do on the twenty four until after

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the investigation to confirm they have their
consent and the children are of age to

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get married. Now that we have
justice, I have to vitualize it,

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so I won’t issue aves change of
words breaking of love. Did he reach

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out to us before the king Republicans
giving out, huntred children out in marriage,

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beards giving some It’s just because he
felt nobody could talk to them,

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and I tried to reach out to
their community. I spoke to the religious

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leader and the main person who took
his cap up there, the SSA,

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to the president of their community.
She was the first person appeared that brought

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this case to me, and before
she did, she had already contacted them.

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She spoke to the speaker and stuff
like that. And when I spoke

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to the religious leader, he said
he was going to get to the speakers

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as from the amia’s house, and
then called it together to speak to me,

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and he got where. He never
caused me back that I been calling

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SS eight to the President, whom
they think might not have the rights I

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have. But I have the rights. It’s within my perfect an agree model

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can go to evilance to protect her
children. So that’s the point I’m making.

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And if he didn’t do that,
I can’t fold my aunts waiting to

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speak to him. And by twenty
four they died must have been done.

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The mondy Is student answer that the
ally starts being complicated. So all agree

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is to cet injunctions, stopping in
grounded and diamond, or go to other

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means of settling the matter. But
I have to first stop them. That’s

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why we take brand to contrite.
Tomorrow they’ll give us the did for the

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ready green day you bring need in
the mortgage is ad