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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I do not have much to add to what my colleagues have said. Mine is just to ask the hon. Members, and the House at large; to learn to be tolerant, civilised and national leaders. They should exercise decorum at all times. Let us learn to defer in a civilised way. This is a House that allows hon. Members to differ in terms of opinion and views. However, we need to express ourselves on them without emotions and anarchy. As hon. Shill said, at the end of the day, the last resort is through voting. We need to learn to try and build consensus whenever possible. I believe that if we had communicated well yesterday, such situation would have been avoided. I am very sure that the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information, and the stakeholders of this very important subject; had reached a consensus. If we had communicated earlier enough the position that the Departmental Committee and the stakeholders had reached, maybe, this would have been the easiest Bill to deal with yesterday. We would have finished with it very quickly. I know from precedents, having been in this House during the Ninth and Tenth Parliament, there was no single Parliament that concluded its term without a Presidential Memorandum being debated on the Floor of this House. We all know. That has always been the precedent. That is the threshold. So, what I am saying is that, maybe, we need to communicate more. We need to be more open to each other, as hon. Members. If the middle ground position that was reached had been communicated earlier, we would not be discussing this incident today. That is as a result of our failure, as the leadership of this House. We are the ones who are supposed to do the communication to other hon. Members. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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