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    "id": 287105,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is what I believe in; to purport that the Committee went beyond vetting and actually interviewed these people, for us to believe that there must be evidence. In the Report the only evidence for interviewing is an annexture of the scores that these people got when they appeared before the panel. The Committee itself has not given us any scores showing that after they interviewed them this is how those people scored. So, all that they are telling us is that they vetted them and found merit as per the Report. Finally, to attempt to make recommendations on the ideal names to the President, as the Committee has attempted in this Report, I do not see how it is offensive. If we have rejected the recommendations by the President and then the President probably wants to find out how Parliament was thinking about that, surely he will look at the HANSARD. In that HANSARD there will be a record of reasons of why we were rejecting the names. Many of us shall say that we want the results of the interviewing panel to be respected. In so doing we will end up listing one, two and three, which will agree with the findings of the Committee. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the Committee, therefore, has done the same, it is not arm-twisting the President but it is just helping the President to understand how the Committee was viewing the meritography of the names that found their way into the list. Thank you."
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