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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was not in the House yesterday, I was in my constituency. However, Parliamentary Committees are a creation of this House and the final verdict on Committee reports lies in either the approval or disapproval of the same by the whole House. The debate was as per the Standing Orders. Members debated. They looked at the Report and the recommendations. This House has the moral authority to disagree with any Committee’s recommendation. What is the essence? When it agrees with a Committee’s recommendation, that means adoption and, therefore, the way forward. If it disagrees with a Committee’s report, then that means that the verdict of the whole House carries the day. Mr. Speaker, Sir, coming to the issue of the division that took place, Standing Orders No. 64 and 65, are very clear that even when the House ties in terms of numbers, it is only the substantive Speaker and the Attorney-General who are exempted from this and that anybody else who is in the Chair can give his vote to either side of that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think this country needs to move forward. I think Parliament must be respected and the Standing Orders must be followed. Chapter 6 talks about integrity. Hon. Members had all the time to bring all the evidence against the three. For the case of Lichuma, I was in this House. When there are seven names and the contentious issue is only one name, then an hon. Member can bring an amendment to either remove that name or support it. However, for this case, the Committee rejected all the three names. The wisdom of this House felt in a vote that the position of the Committee was not the same. I need you to give a ruling in the essence that we should delink politics and regional interests from the whole element of the three names and what happened yesterday in Parliament."
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