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    "id": 518950,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I know you have indulged me greatly. I thank you because you have indulged me because this matter has caused me so much anguish and pain. This has been therapeutic. Just speaking about this has been therapeutic. I end by saying that let us avoid the tendency to personalize legislation; so that today you want a particular person to chair a particular Committee, you run to the Standing Orders and amend them. We will end up legislating for personal reasons. The history of this House is replete with examples of where Parliament has made legislation clearly to assuage the egos or to caress the egos of individuals. Let us not do that. Let us deal with this matter in its totally. I swear on the Floor of this House and before you, my hon. colleagues that, myself, Ababu Namwamba, together with all the Members of PAC, we will be very ready and willing to subject ourselves to any inquiry of any kind on this matter in a context that is fair, but we plead with you; we plead with this House, do not make Members of this Committee victims of mob lynching. Make Members of this Committee subject to a fair, just and free process and you shall separate the chaff from the grain; the truth from lies and fact from fiction. I thank you, hon. Speaker."
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