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    "content": "In law we say, the Senate is entitled to infer an adverse inference on the conduct of the Governor that indeed if his evidence came on record, perhaps we would have not reached this verdict. That is law. When a situation such as this comes to this House, the first question we must ask ourselves is; as a quasi-judicial body because when we sit as an impeachment court, we are not legislating, we are not over-sighting nor are we representing. We are a quasi-judicial sitting. A quasi-judicial sitting, must conduct its affairs, its hearings, its evaluation of evidence and its conclusions in a manner that is consistent with judicial proceedings. The Committee had a duty, not just to listen to witnesses presented before them but to go even further and demand for witnesses to come before them. That is the law. What we are hearing are charges that are laughable. Some of the allegations as the Committee rightly said are unsubstantiated. When you look at page 82, the Deputy Governor is arraigned before a Committee that he called a person of Indian origin a"
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