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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker, I rise to support the composition of the Committee. But, of course, as it was said yesterday - and hon. ole Metito and Neto have just explained - it is very dangerous for us. If you are thrown out for four days and another four days you are out of this Parliament, it is high time that we should also start thinking--- We do not want to be in your office all the time seeking permission to away from this House and be in our constituencies. I think it is also important for us to talk about what has been happening in line with what hon. ole Metito has just read about the powers that this Committee has and what the judges are doing. Yesterday, we had an opportunity to have a small meeting with another department - a small agency. We were just telling them how they no longer have respect to Members of Parliament. We are really waiting for the pecking order thing to be brought to the Floor of the House. I think we are so far that even ordinary policemen no longer have respect for Members of Parliament. I have a colleague here who, just because her driver did a small mistake of making a U-turn in some avenue and Mheshimiwa there was going to attend a very serious meeting in his region on security, they were taken back ten kilometers just because of a mistake of a driver. If policemen can start behaving like that, and we already know the direction that the judges are taking, we are going to have a lot of problems. I totally agree with you, hon. Speaker, we are going to be gagged. We will not be able to do some of the things that we are supposed to do in this House. It is important for us, as much as we review the Powers and Privileges Act, the Committee that we are going to approve, to deal with issues that have happened, but we need to conduct ourselves with decorum. I saw something happening here the other day and I just wished I was back to the municipal council where we used to be councillors and doing a lot of bad things. I do not want to see that thing happening in this House. It is unfortunate that we should start looking for chairs to break the arms and throwing them to the Leader of Majority Party and Leader of Minority Party here. I think it is important for us to behave well because this is a House that needs respect. If we cannot respect ourselves, then the judges, policemen and everybody out there will do what they are just doing. Thank you hon. Speaker, I support. 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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