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    "id": 1166448,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, assuming that there is a desire for Senators to be in this House to debate any matter, no law obligates every Senator to sit in the House. They may sit in the House and now that we even debate through different medium via Zoom and others. A Member sitting in a Committee in United Arabs Emirates (UAE) or the United States of America (USA) can participate in the proceedings of this House. We have had Members voting from Washington to Bills in this House. If the intention was to have quorum for the debate, why extend it to innocent staff of the House who are going on training with their colleagues? In this particular incident, the staff of the Senate offloaded their luggage from the plane which had been put in the cargo hold and they were turned away from the airport and did not travel. While their counterparts from the National Assembly travelled. As the head of this House together with your Clerk, you need to look into this. The Senators can protect themselves, but the members of staff need your protection. If they are to enhance their skills through learning, then we should not allow anybody to subject them to this. Lastly, the Houses of Parliament are independent of the Executive. So, on what basis would anybody in the Executive injunct a member of a different arm of Government from travelling out of the country? Probably they can do so for security or other matters."
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