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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the fourth pillar is accountability. These four pillars are not strictly obeyed, if I may say so. The current Act is not consistent with those pillars. It, therefore, became important and urgent that we put in place a witness protection agency which answers to the four pillars and, hence, these amendments. I must tell you that the programme so far has an office. It has an acting head of the unit and I am pleased to let you know that he is here. Those five officials are all within the Department of Public Prosecutions and are connected with the witness protection unit. Let us give credit where it is due. They, in the course of their operations, have come across these obstacles in implementing. It is they who came up with the amendments that this House is going to consider. They were not alone in that; they were assisted by experts from the International Criminal Court (ICC). I can tell you, as of now, that the former head of this unit, under the Department of Public Prosecutions, was poached by the ICC and is now working at the Hague in the department which deals with witness protection. In other"
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