{"id":350164,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/350164/?format=json","text_counter":911,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ethuro","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":158,"legal_name":"Ekwee David Ethuro","slug":"ekwee-ethuro"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Chairman, Sir, the question that you are proposing in terms of deleting paragraph 218, I thought was not essentially what hon. Keynan was asking. His serious bone of contention was whether it should be a Joint Committee or each House can actually have its own Committee on intelligence. I thought that at the very worst, let us have each House have its own. But the whole purpose why we made this a Joint Committee is because we felt that these are real issues that affect the state. I think it was important for Parliament, as one arm of Government, to approach the issues of state intelligence with one united approach. Mr. Deputy Chairman, Sir, I am definitely opposing the amendment."}