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    "content": "even the footsteps or the pause were captured. The audio stopped at a particular point. So, the members found it very difficult to believe Corporal Odako. Since we were not investigating hon. Odako at all, we only made a recommendation. We recommended and put it somewhere that we found his manner of working very unprofessional. We stopped at that point. We decided that we were not going to take the audio tape as substantiating any claim. By the way, what Corporal Odako told us was that he gave the phone to hon. Namwamba close to his car, as he was leaving. When we heard evidence from hon. Namwamba, he told us he was given the phone while already seated at the table with the former Prime Minister and he was told that: “You might need your phone.” The difficulty we had as a Committee was that if that was done, and he was saying he was the one who started off and stopped the taping process, we would have expected to have heard where he says: “You may need your phone.” That was not there. So, as a Committee we felt that there was a possibility that even if it is true that this audio was taken, it had been edited. As far as we are concerned as a Committee, any tape that had been edited was not going to be of value to everybody else except the person who was taping. I will go very briefly to the recommendations that we made because I do not want to take a lot of time. I really want to thank the Committee for having done the 18 meetings. If you look at the Report, we have got comparative literature from other jurisdictions. We did not have any that has been done in this Parliament. So, we had to Google and search for other areas where they have had issues like this. We found out that New Zealand and Canada had something close to this. I must thank everybody in that Committee, including the Clerks and the Clerk"
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