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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": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you have such an Oversight Authority, then we must also make it a just body. First, I do not think that this country will move forward if we start digging yesterday’s graves. I think we must have a starting point where this Board is going to start and move on. That is because if we say that any police officer who was wronged 20 years ago can now be dragged before this Authority or Board, then it will not work. I know we have legislation in the Constitution against retrospective application. But unless it is clearly stated at the starting point, people will not get to know because they are not lawyers. At least, we must make it clear that those who were wronged ten years ago may not find redress in this Bill when it is passed, so that we can move on. A different mechanism should be found in compensating those who were wronged before this law comes into place other than using this law."
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