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    "id": 484374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to implore you because those who are lawyers will tell you that there was a time Lord Denning had a criminal trial. After he finished, he wrote the judgment and went home to have lunch with his wife. He was going to deliver the judgment in the afternoon. At the lunch table, he recited evidence to his wife. The verdict he had reached, and he had left his secretary transcribing the judgment for him to come and deliver. The wife gave him a different variable to his thinking. You can find this in one of his books. He left the lunch on the table and drove straight back to court, called his secretary and dictated a new conclusion to the judgment. Mr. Speaker, Sir, V.I. Lenin the founder of Russia once said that some minds are like concrete; all mixed up, but permanently set. We know that you have a very flexible mind and have always been on the side of the express provisions of the law. Traditions, usage and precedents are only relevant to the extent that there are no express provisions of law. I want to urge that you see the point; that the threshold of 24 is to make a decision affecting counties and have a validity of the vote when it is won. But you do not need 24 to vote. I cannot put it any better eloquently than Sen. Murkomen put it; that we canvass. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in fact, we always tell hon. Senators who bring Motions here that on the voting day they should ensure that they have 24 delegations if the Motions affect counties. So, they will make frantic calls to friends and colleagues and say: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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