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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do realize that, maybe, it was difficult to spot me because I am on this other side, seated on the Leader of the Minority Party seat for the interest of national dialogue and we are doing very well with my neighbour, hon. (Eng.) Gumbo. These are some of the things that really get me annoyed and it is quite disheartening that, 50 years after Independence, we still act and behave as if we are still in bondage. For those of us who keep goats, we know that if you tie a goat to a tree for a couple of days, the time you remove that rope, that goat will never move out of that radius. That is because it will think that it is still bound there. 50 years ago, this country gained independence. We got emancipation from the shackles of colonialism. But it looks like what we got really was physical independence from visible shackles, where the white man left but we are still mentally in bondage as a country. 50 years after Independence, it is time that we now emancipate ourselves. I do not know if it is within the Standing Orders to quote singers like Bobby Marley but, in his redemption song, he says: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but 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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