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    "id": 1039698,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I think we should all remember that this is not a court of law although it is a quasi-judicial proceeding. Therefore, we should confine ourselves to the issues at hand. The line of questioning, I am now hearing that you should first of all establish whether this witness, under Standing Orders of the County Assembly--- Is what he is asking a responsibility of this witness, the Clerk or the Speaker of the County Assembly? It ought to be questioned whether that document is there or not, and so on. Mr. Speaker, Sir, to my understanding, the Leader of Minority, you normally leave it to the Speaker and Clerk to forward the documents up here. When they come here, you can again bring them on that rule. The fourth one, in order to save time, is that on some of the issues whether a document is there or not, the documents speak for themselves. It is something that can be mentioned in submissions. I am just saying this because of the time factor. I know that my learned friend can question you for two or three days. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you can just limit to the issues at hand and realize that these are quasi-judicial proceedings and not the proceedings in a court of law. These are not criminal proceedings, if I may say so or civil proceedings. It is quasi-judicial, which more or less says that without undue regard to technicalities, focus on the issues at hand."
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