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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lessonet",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Lessonet",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I have withdrawn. At every opportunity, every Bill that comes to this House, we are just creating a job for a lawyer. When we talk about the Chairman of the Board, we are insisting that he must be in a position to be a judge. The previous speaker has even gone further and said that the Secretary of that Board must be a lawyer. I want to beg that all of us have done suitable courses. Even accountants like myself can serve in these positions which we seem to be creating for only lawyers and judges. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, so that all our taxes do not end up in paying salaries and allowances--- We are creating a very huge Government. This is a monstrous Government. We are going to have a Police Service and this other Authority on the other side and it is going to have its own employees. I want to beg that the Minister recommends that, for example, the chairman to this Board, which is not a full time job, can be one of the sitting judges. He only needs to come and sit twice or thrice in a month. This is because the Authority has its own employees to overlook the day to day functions of the Authority. When you want to have another substantive position and substantive person, I want to tell you we are going to run out of money to pay all these people in all these authorities. Therefore, if we can go and even say that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) can send one of their employees as a Board member, so that we do not look like we just want to fight the Police Service, let us allow them to send somebody to this Board so that they are also represented. I am sure most of the time the complaints look like it is from us; the public, but the police should also be given a chance to be heard. They will tell you the horrible things we do to them. Let us allow them to be represented in this Board."
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