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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "I am concluding, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. This Committee cannot purport to act like a loose cannon ball. This Committee does not have a carte blanche – a blank cheque – to act and behave as it wishes. This Committee is bound by the law and this process was guided by the National Police Service Commission Act, 2011. This law has a very clear procedure in Section 6 on how the whole conveyor belt for these appointments ought to move. This Committee is not an appellate tribunal such that a candidate that did not succeed; a candidate that for whatever reason was not shortlisted can come to appeal. It is not provided in this law. This Committee is expected to vet and it is clearly here:- “Where the National Assembly rejects any nomination, the Speaker shall within three days communicate its decision to the President and request the President to submit fresh nominations.” If this Committee had an issue with any nominee, they did not have the statutory, constitutional or procedural power or authority to replace, change or recommend any new name. They only ought to have said: “Reject and refer back to sender.” That is what they have not done and that is the law. The Chairman of the Committee may attempt to convolute, circumlocute and find any reason but this is the law and we are bound by the law. Anything else will turn this into a jungle house where we do not operate within bounds of the law. This Report must be rejected because approving it would, indeed, diminish the integrity of this House in terms of our fidelity to the law and our fidelity to the Constitution."
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