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    "id": 518894,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyango",
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        "legal_name": "Silvance Osele Onyango",
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    "content": "What has surprised me is to see a scenario where culpability of either a Member or two Members could turn out to haunt the entire Committee and this House as a whole. If we go ahead today and disband PAC because we believe if all Members are corrupt then it should be disbanded--- This should not only affect PAC Committee rather the entire House and its systems. As we look at this matter of PAC, I would like to go on record that I am a Member. You have also sat in PAC as Members and we have deliberated these issues before. The matter haunting us today is a matter that was raised by the same Members who could not substantiate the same matters before our own selves. It has gone out that attempt to dislodge the PAC Chairperson is now coming back and it is being looked at as a test to the whole House in corruption. Personally, I wish that other investigative bodies could be invited to investigate those allegations. They need to go to the route of certain individuals because nobody is guilty until proven guilty. I do not wish to run into condemnation because today, as we discuss this, we look at PAC and its entire membership as corrupt and we are discussing each other without giving ourselves an opportunity to be heard. To me, I find it very strange and we need to re-look at the Standing Orders and say to what extent we say this matter is now beyond the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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