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    "id": 1072047,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "especially with regard to the fact that any proceedings must be reported to the House. Moreover, like any other business, it must be voted on. Decisions are not made on the basis of evidence received by the Committee, which is supposed to be a specialized Committee but on the basis of usual standards in any House of Parliament, which is debate and politics. I have actually expressed the desire that the Act should be amended so that the Speaker should not be the chairman of that Committee. This is because it does not look very tidy that you sit - Hon. Duale indicated - not in plenary here but in some room and get evidence, some of it in great details. Moreover, many of us will appreciate how you analyse, based on facts, the law and evidence and you make some findings. Additionally, you come and within no time you are told ‘put the Question’, and the matter is over one way or the other, whether you are convicting or not convicting. I think there is need for any one of you Members to propose an amendment so that the Speakers of the Houses of Parliament do not chair that committee. This will enable the Speaker to impartially preside over debate from a report of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Committee."
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