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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Motion and say that, as a country, we have what we call national symbols. We have the national flag. We have the Coat of Arms. We have the President. The President is a national symbol in this country. There are those aspects that make the President to be a President. Some of them are like the title: “Your Excellency”. So, what we are doing now as a country is actually diluting the Presidency by giving that title to other individuals in the country. So, what we wanted as a country was to devolve the country, but not to devolve the aspects that make our national symbols. There is a governor who wanted to post ambassadors for his own county. If you are not careful, the same thing will happen. We should be very conservative when we use the titles. Actually, if you go to the ground, even MCAs are calling themselves “hon. Members”. You see! So, we are starting to dilute the aspect that gives us titles. I want to say this: We have 47 governments currently. If we are not very careful, we are going to have 47 countries in one country. That is because every governor will make his own budget – the way they are doing. They will start drifting towards their own direction. In the Constitution, we are supposed to be a unitary country."
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