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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Having said that, let me make it clear that by referring this matter to the Committee of Privileges, it is not to put the Public Accounts Committee under trial, but it is to allow the relevant body of this House as required by the law and practice of the House, to attend to the allegations of breach of privilege and/or code of conduct so as to assist the House to make a decision. Similarly, the Chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee asked me to confirm whether anybody is at liberty to divulge information shared with the Speaker in confidence. Certainly, an attempt to do so will be out of order. However, I can confirm that the submission the Chairperson was referring to was formally made to the Speaker in writing and seeking guidance. It was neither personal nor peculiar. Indeed, the matters contained in that letter were canvassed during the Committee’s meeting of 26th February, 2015. The letter is the one that I have submitted to the Committee. As I conclude, I wish to call upon the Members of this House to search their souls and conscience as to whether some of our actions befit the status of Members of this House. One famous British politician, commonly known to many people as the war general, Winston Churchill, stated that:- “If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you do not have integrity, nothing else matters”. May I also paraphrase a saying of Confucius, one of the greatest philosophers from the book that I am reading. He said:- “The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of Parliament”."
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