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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, 2634 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 9, 2008 Sir. I do appreciate your ruling and all the reasons that have been given. I also appreciate all the issues that have been raised by my honourable colleagues. But when you sit on that Chair, you occupy a quasi-judicial position. When you deliver a ruling, as a quasi-judicial officer, you, in fact, have the right to make a mistake as long as it is not mischievous. Indeed, once you have made the ruling - and I am coming to the point raised by my great friend, hon. Deputy Speaker - it then does not augur well for the House for any person sitting in that Chair; either yourself, your deputy or Members of the Panel, to come to the Floor and appear to defend the rulings they have made. Once those rulings have been made, it is like a Judge or magistrate sitting on a judgement in a case. You cannot then go out and explain what you did and what caused you to do it. You are functus officio on the matter. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not want us to lead the House in a situation where you sit on the Chair and, when there are issues, you come to explain. We will destroy the institution of Parliament. Thank you."
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