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    "id": 1066644,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "We all agreed that the Senate was just, fair, reasonable and the governor got his fair day before the Senate. That is what it should be. If this House lives to its billing, it matters not which avenue we take, whether Committee or plenary. It matters not who sits in that Committee. Of late, we have had inventions of descriptions of Members of the Committee whose duty is to sit, yawn and vote while few do the work. I urge Members, like Sen. Orengo has said, in the event you are in a Committee, if you feel that you cannot discharge your responsibility, do not accept to serve on the Committee. If you feel you have some vestiges of bias or hang-ups of past relationships, do not accept to serve on that Committee. This is because justice must not only be done but manifestly seen to be done for whoever comes before us. The charges can be bad but we shall convict on evidence. It is easy to say many things. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I dare say that one of the processes that we did here and the House acted like Jesus before the court of Herod, is the recent impeachment that we did. It is water under the bridge. It is a matter where we are functus officio . We do not need to belabor. However, let us not act like those comical characters in Nikolai Gogol’s book “ The Government Inspector’ where the mayor says “lock that fellow for theft’ and his orderlies say “Mr. Mayor, he has not stolen” but the mayor says “lock him up! He will steal one day, anyway”"
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