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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Order! Hon. Members, this is the moment in which every Member of Parliament is expected--- Every hon. Member is supposed to exhibit and demonstrate, as much as possible, his or her statesmanship and our own patriotism. We have come from a history that we cannot be proud of. We are proceeding towards another election. By and large, in most cases when such things happen--- I applaud this for hon. Members, they would always come up and consult the Speaker. You have always come to the Office of the Speaker to consult. If a matter can be dealt with expeditiously and corrected; it is corrected. That is as opposed to raising it here on the Floor of the House without giving that notice to the Speaker. Not that you do not have the right to do that, but we have to think way beyond what we have been generally accustomed to. That is because we are going through a landmark period in our own history on matters of elections. You can imagine what the media has done and the hyping that has been there. There is the population out there that does not have the information that is available to us. In any case, there was nothing that was deleted. There was a “not” which was supposed to have been deleted. That “not” was in the original Bill. It was even in the original amendment of Mr. Mungatana. But in the subsequent amendment that was moved on the Floor of the House, that is when it was removed by the House. That is not to say that the Chair is giving a window to any State officer, either in the Speaker’s Office or the Attorney-General’s Office, to claim that there are human errors. That has only been one error. But, essentially, the Chair is concerned that in the media and the public opinion, the matter has been hyped to a level or a situation that we cannot be proud of. But other than that, Mr. Mungatana, Ms. Karua and every other hon. Member who contributed to the same did a good job; a commendable job. We would want the sensationalization, as much as possible, not to be done before you are able to approach the Speaker’s Office and clarify that. That is because this would have been dealt with appropriately and immediately without the stuff we got in the media."
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