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    "id": 482918,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/482918/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
        "slug": "george-peter-opondo-kaluma"
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The first amendment, contrary to the Constitution proposes that people are guilty until they prove their innocence. I have an experience with this amendment. I had mentioned to the Chair of my Committee that this amendment can only work if we limit the period within which those criminal cases have to be determined. You have people charged and then you are in court for ten years until you retire simply because somebody has charged you with an offence for which you are later acquitted. So, I would request if the Mover of the amendment can limit the trial of such cases to a period of one year. Within one year, the trial should be complete. In terms of the proposed part 1(A), it is well motivated but let us look at the wording of these provisions clearly. You are saying that when a person is adversely mentioned in a report, he will stand suspended pending what investigations? This is what needs to come out clearly. Pending investigations by whom? By the time you are doing the report, you have done your investigations and that is why in the report, you are mentioning the person. So, when you are saying you will be suspended pending investigations, what investigations? As long as that explanation is not coming out, I think this is premature. We should remove it unless it is corrected."
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