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    "id": 573204,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "It is used for political purposes. That is not how prosecution should be done. There should be proper investigations before prosecution. The Commission has very qualified people who are very well trained. Now that this House has pronounced itself on the people who are working in the Commission, some of whom have worked there for about 15 years and have not been vetted, they should be vetted. We should come up with a mechanism for vetting them just the way Judges were vetted by the Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board. Anybody who is working in senior offices should be vetted. Now that we have passed a law to regularise commissions, this Commission should be empowered and devolved. It can only be empowered by this House. Therefore, there has to be a good working relationship between the House and the Commission. There has to be mutual respect and all of us should be guided by the law, as President Obama said. He said that he is not above the law. The Commission is not above the law, we are not above the law, but there must be some respect when prosecutions are being conducted."
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