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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you. Mine is very brief. As you make your ruling, I would request my colleagues to have confidence in the abilities of committees. I am saying this because as Public Accounts Committee (PAC), we have asked for a special audit on this matter and the CS, among other people, is expected to appear before us. Honestly, if what we saw yesterday is the way we expect to conduct proceedings, then this House will lose its meaning. As Parliament, we need to have confidence in the abilities of committees to discharge their roles. If we are sitting here thinking that we are holding forte for some people who are not in this House, then we are losing it as a House. So, as you rule, it is important that, as a House, we realise that the same order we demand when we are in plenary should be extended to committees. Committees should do their work, present their reports and then we can have a chance to debate them in plenary. Finally, I noticed that when Hon. Wandayi was prosecuting his point of order, some people still stood on points of order. I was just wondering: Have we now mutilated the Standing Orders? When you are on a point of order, you must execute it."
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