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    "id": 249778,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wako",
    "speaker_title": "The Attorney-General",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 208,
        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I oppose. I was looking for the Penal Code. This Section is not trying to create new offences. If you look at Chapter 5 of the Penal Code and read it carefully, it is about parties to offences. It deals with the general principles of law regarding the person who has actually committed the offence and those who assisted him before and this is accessory before the fact and those who have assisted him afterwards, accessory after the fact. I want to make it quite clear that as far as the offences under this Act are concerned, they are also governed by those general principles of law. This means that if you have assisted a corrupt person, you are also an accessory before the fact. If you help him afterwards, you are an accessory after the fact. So, it is going to repeat what is really the general principles of law and I see no reason why this House should be involved in actually deleting a proposal which is in conformity with what, we lawyers who are well versed in criminal law, know are parties to the offence. So, I really oppose this proposal."
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