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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " On a point of order. Mr. Speaker, Sir. You have seen how my distinguished colleague has been fumbling with papers here and not answering questions. What we want to know as a House of Parliament and as country is: Are journalists going to pursue their career of colleting and disseminating information without State harassment? That is very important. Secondly, the Constitution under Article 35(1) (a) states that:- “Every citizen has the right of access to information held by the State.” In the entire Constitution, there is no qualification. Is the Chairman in order to tell us that, that access has qualification when the Constitution is absolute in it is terms; “access to information”? More particularly, this is to information that leads to the disclosure of impropriety by Government agencies. Without disclosure and busting on corrupt cartels, like I said, we probably would never have known what Waiguru is doing or what others are doing. It is the media that has been prying into this. Those who are lawyers like Sen. Murkomen know that illegally obtained evidence, if it leads to a discloser of criminal offence, is admissible. Can the Chairman respond to these issues?"
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