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    "id": 1326525,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orwoba",
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    "content": "Having said that, it is important for me to point out that it is not proper that we sweep under the carpet the issue of the irregularity that the committee went ahead and engaged in. The Ad Hoc Committee that was set up is rooted from the Liaison Committee. The Liaison Committee as I am reminded, is under Select Committees. Under the Select Committees, we are guided by procedures and rules on how to conduct our meetings, how they are chaired and what not. As a matter of fact, I had to go back and do a refresher course on my Standing Orders. From Standing Order No.197 to 228, you will see how committees conduct committee work, meetings and how all sorts of committee business is conducted. To have a group of Senators travel without the proper procedures and allegedly conduct committee work without the HANSARD--- I am informed that there was no HANSARD secretariat to sit down and document all the meetings and engagements that were being held and the witnesses they were allegedly going to see. I ask myself because I am a new Senator, if we are a House of oversight, how then can we come and say that pastor Ezekiel or Makenzie or the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration are out of order, when we cannot follow our Standing Orders? How do we have the moral authority to allegedly table a report? Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I weigh in on this ---"
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