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    "id": 427299,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to take this opportunity to thank the Chairperson of the Committee for the initiative he has taken to see to it that at least a Statement is issued on due date because you had directed that, that Statement must come today. I am also grateful to him because at the close of that Statement, he has indicated that the Committee will keep the House seized and informed of any developments on this issue. Since I belong to that Committee, I want to take this opportunity to thank the hon. Attorney-General because he came at a short notice and he was candid with the Committee on this issue. I am not talking about the Attorney-General emeritus, but I am talking about the sitting Attorney-General. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the answer is not quite satisfactory, but I would like to give the Chairperson the opportunity to pursue that issue further, particularly taking into account the provisions of Section 23 of the Power of Mercy Act. It is mandatory, in its form, that the President must within 30 days exercise or not exercise the power of mercy after he has received that Statement. Finally, we have been informed by the Chairperson that the National Security Advisory Committee looks at this list after it has left the relevant Committee and before it reaches the President. I think there is a danger there. So, I would like to request the Chairperson to look at the possibilities of amending the relevant law so that the relevant people from the National Intelligence Service at least see the list before it goes to the President so that the risk of being tampered with after it leaves the Committee by other people for other reasons is minimized. The list that leaves the Committee should be the list that reaches the President and the list on which the President in exercise of his power of mercy under Article 133 of the Constitution relies on. The Committee is statutory."
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