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    "id": 1234735,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen Orwoba",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am standing here, giving my views as Sen. Orwoba. I do not see any chains around me and let it be known to the public that what I speak here represents my belief and my opinion. I do not speak for anybody. So, as I was saying, a cult is a social movement and that is what it is. We have so many people who are opening up all sorts of establishments disguised as religious institutions. They are not just churches but there are other sort of things including mosques, religious schools and things like that. Some of us who are Christians know what the church looks like. We are in this House, the ‘upper House’, to legislate. What we lack in this country is the legal definition of a cult. If we had a legal definition of a cult, this would have been a clear case of, ‘this is a cult, this is what it entails and this is how we have to deal with it’. We heard the pronouncement of our leader when he said that this man is a terrorist, and I agree. This is not a pastor. This is a terrorist. A terrorist who has gone out of the way to influence people to kill themselves the same way we have suicide bombers. When weighing on this matter, I want to sensitize people that we are talking of cults. You may want to put a blanket on them and call them religious institutions, try and tie them to the church, but it is obvious and it is in the public domain that any person who"
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