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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "What I do not agree with is the view being advanced by hon. Mbadi that any committee which is adversely mentioned should be disbanded. We must have systems that can handle some of these matters internally before they even get out. I have been agonising and I have looked at some hon. Members who have had the privilege to serve in this House for three or four terms. These are honourable senior citizens of this country. Maybe a time has come that, even at an informal level, we need to have a council of elders of this House which can sit and canvass these matters so that we do not find ourselves in the situation that we are in now. The truth is that there are a lot of Members-- - I have had occasion, for example, when I was proposing an amendment to one of the Bills, to discuss with a colleague well past midnight. He was similarly working on the Bill. As you know, the research support that we have here is not to the extent that we would want it to be. So, I want to look at this as an opportunity for us to relook at ourselves as a House and see what we can do to redeem the image of Parliament. It is important that we redeem the image of Parliament so that the very many good things that Parliament is doing can start to come out as opposed to the few bad things that are coming out that everyone now seems to be talking about. I thank you, hon. Speaker."
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