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    "id": 601023,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. If what we have just witnessed happened in isolation, I would understand, but a pattern has emerged. In the first vote, which was more or less a scientific vote, there was no voice vote because votes were being recorded electronically. However, when the result of manual voting was first announced, they were opposite of what the actual results were. At that moment, we took it as a mistake. I would like to remind the Senate Minority Leader that what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was saying was not that the Chair was fraudulent. What he was saying was that the outcome was fraudulent. It was fraudulent because even the Chair, when we had voted, he looked this side, and despite the points of order that we had been raising, when we expressed a voice vote; the “Nays”, and he said - I think that is in the HANSARD – that: “That is what I was waiting for”, showing clearly that the “Nays” had it. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to believe in the constitutional arrangement of this Republic the person who sits in that Chair as the head of a State organ and a branch of Government, if in broad daylight we can see something which is happening and even people in the Gallery are going back to say that even in Parliament, a vote can be rigged, then they should not have come here, in the first place, to learn from the Senate. This is a matter which we must bring a substantial Motion, if need be. That substantial Motion is to make sure that the record of this House is---"
}