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    "speaker_name": "April 2, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 16 Sen. Sang",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not yet through. Finally, to clarify whether the State Law office and the office of the President are interfering with the work of the EACC; I want to confirm that we had two different answers from the Secretariat. They indicated that there has never been any pressure from the two offices. However, from the EACC’s side, it was alleged that two persons from the Presidency; one from the Presidency and the other one from the State Law Office---. They indicated that they will share that information in confidence with the Senate. We are waiting for that report. Therefore, I cannot give the names. I just want to confirm that from the EACC’s side, there has been some level of pressure from the two offices. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to finalize on that particular element, the commissioners made an appeal to this House which I want to pass to you. Because of the offices occupied by the people who are pressuring these commissioners to resign, they raised the issue of their personal safety and security. They requested this House to intervene in asking the Inspector-General (IG) of Police to enhance the security of these officials. I, therefore, request you as the Speaker to give that direction that these two commissioners are given enhanced security because of the kind of pressure that they are receiving from people within those top offices. This is just an interim report that we are to work on for only today. We will give the full and comprehensive report when we resume from recess. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to appreciate the fact that when we had that Committee meeting, a lot of the Members in this House; Committee Members and friends to the Committee attended. With your indulgence, you could give them a few minutes to ventilate on these issues."
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