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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
    "speaker_title": "The Temporary Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Hon. Mbadi, if you also look at what Standing Order 36 allows the Chair to do, it is the sequence. Just read it a bit carefully. It is really the sequence of business. So, if the sequence can be towards the end of the day until next Tuesday, I think the Chair considers that not causing inconvenience to the House. Finally, to the Government side and to the Deputy Leader of Government Business, the point that is really being made is this: One, this business came to the House with such speed. We even reduced the period of publication and so we got the sense that the Government was serious to prosecute this matter. Even when the House considered that there was a problem in the departmental committee that was to deal with it, it gave the mandate to another Committee. The Committee went ahead and did the work within the stipulated period. It presented a Report before the House. So, it is the expectation of the country that constitutional matters must be expedited immediately. Now, being Thursday and agreeing with some of the statements by the Deputy Leader of Government Business that some Members have already left knowing that this matter will not be there- -- Even for the convenience of the Chair, itself, I would have gotten the other panelists to chair. We did not make that arrangement because we knew this matter had been suspended. But I felt it was important for Members and, particularly the Chair, to make these kinds of statements clearly. I hope the Government has heard us and we will work on the promise by the Leader of Government Business that, come Tuesday afternoon next week, this matter will be there before the HBC. The Chair is sympathetic to the Government position in the sense that even yesterday, the Order Paper had actually notices of amendments and some of us were concerned why the notices were coming when the business itself was not appearing on the Order Paper. I felt that it was just for advance information so that hon. Members will know. At least on that basis, we can assume that there was no bad feeling on the part of the Government. I would also want to urge the Deputy Leader of Government Business and the Members who sit in the House Business Committee that as you proceed to the House Business Committee meeting later today, this is one matter you should also prioritize so that it is known over the weekend that it will appear on Tuesday as promised and that no any other matter including the matter of today will take precedence on this particular matter which has been resolved and there is no controversy."
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