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    "id": 479046,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, a trend is developing which I think undermines your authority. Members of Parliament find other ways of going outside this country through the Executive. I think that as long as the Executive pays for Members to go on holidays then they are undermining the authority of this House. This is because they are being compromised. It has happened once too many times and I do not want to cast aspersions, but you must put your foot down so that if there is a trip let them write to the Clerk or you so that you send it to the relevant committees so that those committees agree on who should accompany the President or the Executive. I am well aware that only six Members of this House accompanied the President. The people basking in the sun in Washington – I am told the summer is so hot – are so many and I am also aware that they do not have your authority. Hon. Speaker, you have to put your foot down. Hon. Speaker, I wanted to raise one other issue and that is the ruling you have made. I thank you for it because those were unnecessarily controversial things before us. We want to plead with the people who are fighting to work within the laws that are passed by this House. We are the people that make law. It cannot be the NIS or the military. Whatever they are trying to do is a wrong trend. This Constitution only allows the people before you this afternoon to make laws. That laws can originate as per the thinking of the Army Chief of Staff is wrong. So, I want to thank the Leader of Majority Party for seeing it so that it is not unnecessarily controversial. I, however, seek your guidance. Those issues have been spoken to in the HANSARD of last week and yet I have not heard of a direction whether to expunge those or do they remain part of the record of this House? I thank you, hon. Speaker."
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