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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mositet",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Korinko Mositet",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute. I would like to say that I support this Bill. My, brother, Boni, is known for very good debates here. He sat one day and thought that issues in this country must be put in order because they are not in order. For sure, my brother, you deserve applause from the whole country. Leaders were elected and now, they are trying to compete who is who. Everybody is trying to show that they are bigger than the other person who was elected. Just as Madam Senator has said, when we were looking for votes, we promised to give them servant leadership and told them that we would always be with them. We told them that we would always humble ourselves to the old ladies, children and if possible, we will be mentors of those children. Our society is right now in big problems. Our children have no mentors simply because of the direction that many of our leaders have taken. If we were to define who a leader is, we would start by saying that this is a person who humbles himself or herself in front of other people. That is lacking and when Sen.(Dr.) Khalwale came up with this Bill; all of us felt that we had a duty to support and to shout that it is a good Bill. When I look at the President, Governors, national Government and the county governments, I see it as the structure we have now. I could compare this to the structure we have in the church where we have bishops and other pastors. There is no time we have heard a pastor saying that he is a “small bishop.” A pastor will always appreciate and he or she will refer to the bishop as “my bishop.” When a bishop is visiting a local church, one can always tell that a bishop is visiting. There are many Catholic bishops in this country but we have not heard them referring to themselves as small popes. However, after our people were promised servant leadership by our Governors, some of them decided to show that they are small kings. They started giving themselves the title of small presidents simply out of their own ambitions. Others feel that probably when the President expires, the other people who will take up that seat will be one who has served as a Governor. That is not true. This issue of referring to the Governor as His Excellency is mischievous and the worst thing we should allow to go on. I thank my brother because with this Bill, he has put up a position that if you are a Governor or a Senator, you should be referred to by the name that you used when people were electing you and that will bring order."
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