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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Godana",
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        "legal_name": "Bonaya Godana",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, and whatever we do, we got to think of posterity. What we do today will go down in the records. It is through this that I wanted to say that let us provide for specific numbers as in the case of Standing Order No.147, but the principle is similar. We concede the majority to the majority side but we do not stifle the minority into non-existence. The way this Committee has been constituted has no purpose. It will serve no purpose for five Members of the Opposition to sit on a Committee dominated by 20 Government Members! In any case, the rationale behind these nominations has been made very clear by hon. Obwocha. In defence of his position, he said that we are a party in the Opposition which means he is conceding that his position is that of the Opposition. He has conceded that here on the Floor of the House that the positions that he has occupied on the proposed list are positions of the Opposition. That is why he is insisting as a Cabinet Minister that he feels their party is still a party in the Opposition. The honourable Leader of Government Business in this House will have some good sense to realise that this is a terrible embarrassment even to him personally. It will go down the annals of this country's history that at a time when this country had become an established multi-party State, they were trying to wind back the rules of democracy. Will he have the grace to withdraw this Motion and go and consult for a more representative and fairer list of the House Business Committee?"
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