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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "of us should come together as a House so that we are able to safeguard the independence of Parliament. It will not be good for this country the moment we start diluting the functions of this House. It has to be recalled that there are certain functions, for example, appropriations that are only donated to this House. Honestly, if we are to leave that lacuna as it still exists in law, then we face a real situation where the activities of this House can at one point completely be brought to a halt. That can only be to the detriment of the country as a whole. I do not want to go to issues that have been spoken to by my colleagues. I have been thinking about the provisions of Article 125 of the Constitution and what they actually mean. This is because in its express meaning and the way it is written, Article 125 (1) says: “Either House of Parliament, and any of its committees, has power to summon any person to appear before it for the purpose of giving evidence or providing information.” Article 125 (2) goes on to say: “For the purposes of Clause (1), a House of Parliament and any of its committees has the same powers as the High Court.” I have been agonizing what it means when we say that the Committees of Parliament have the powers of the High Court. Recently, we had an engagement with the---"
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