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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been following this debate very closely and I do not quite understand why we are pinning Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale on the wall. Standing Order No.94 is very clear and I listened to what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale said; he turned to the House and said “We, Senators.” But the Standing Orders talk of:- “No Senator shall impute improper motive to any other Senator---” This is specific, identifiable and nameable. It is not like when I stand here and say “many of us have logs in our own eyes and we are seeing specks in other people’s eyes.” That does not amount to improper motive envisaged and cited in Standing Order No.90(4). It is very clear. If I stood here – and I am not saying that I will say so – and said “my distinguished learned senior, Sen. Kiraitu has done this or that;” then I have imputed an improper motive. But if I say “some of us are conducting ourselves in a manner that is below the expectations of the public,” that does not amount to imputing an improper motive on any Senator because the Standing Order is about “a Senator;” not the Senate, not Senators, not an amorphous grouping, whether they are called “sky team” or “ground team” or “water team.” So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think we are over stretching the issue about Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and having apologized generally in the same general manner in which he had made it, it is unfair to demand that he withdraws allegations against nobody specifically because he has not maligned anybody; he has not imputed improper motives on anybody. I think my distinguished senior, Sen. (Dr.) Machage, is also over stretching the application of Standing Order No.110 because I do not think there has been any disorderly conduct in the manner that this debate has been going on. Mr. Speaker, Sir, again may I urge the House---"
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