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    "id": 30876,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, before I speak on the procedure, let me tell you, hon. Members. For those who are pursuing legislation with vested interests, there was a Prime Minister in Pakistan called Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When he was the Prime Minister, he engineered a law which outlawed the participation of any foreign lawyers, particularly Queen’s Counsels (QCs) from the the UK, in Pakistani jurisdiction. After a while in office, a military general overthrew him and took him to court. He sought to bring 10 QCs from the UK to defend him, and he was shown the law that he had passed with a vested interest. He was told: “QCs cannot practise law here.” He was tried without QCs defending him, convicted, sentenced and hanged in public."
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