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    "id": 1153488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to save you the difficulty of having to be a judge on your own course because that, then, will be a question of fact, and the Speaker then having decided that the matter must be substantiated, I would suggest that the person to make that decision should not be yourself. This is because that goes against the most basic tenets of fair trial, which is in our Constitution. You cannot be a judge in your own course. Those issues are so serious that if Hon. Fatuma Gedi is able to substantiate, they can even take us to the provisions of Article 94. In those provisions at Sub-Article 5, the question of removal of the Deputy President for breach of the Constitution is to be initiated in this House. If the substantiation was so clear that we say that we do not just want to stop there, and that we actually want to initiate the removal, then what will the Hon. Speaker do? It puts you in great difficulty; and there is one more. Hon. Speaker, the provisions of Article 90 on conflict of interest requires us to disclose conflict of interest. Conflict of interest is described to include personal relationship. We now know that you have a personal relationship with the Deputy President. Is the Hon. Speaker required to disclose that? Well, I will use the words of the Standing Order; “personal” and it can extend to political. Hon. Speaker, it includes – for both now and the future – where a Speaker has chosen to takes sides, because it is unprecedented. We know we all have political affiliations, but like a judge, it is assumed that once you occupy that office, then those affiliations do not come to the fore. However, when they come to the fore for futuristic purposes rather than historical, then it means there is an issue of conflict. How does the substantive Speaker handle this? Hon. Speaker, I would like you to give guidance, because I know you can remove yourself from that situation of conflict temporarily and give clear guidance for present and for future on this very unprecedented situation. I thank you Hon. Speaker."
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