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    "id": 631858,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Speaker, that is what informed the RBC which is chaired by the Speaker. What is before the House, to cut a long story short as Jeffrey Archer would put it, is to refer this matter to the substantive Speaker who chairs the RBC, and who presided over the proceedings that brought this Motion to the House and who in law, we will submit, will be estopped from thinking differently from the position he has taken to make a reasoned ruling and give direction. Otherwise, we are just being disruptive and engaging in arguments that simply show that we want to flex muscles. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are also seeing signs that are very worrying because the CPAIC is a Senate oversight committee. It will look at accounts of counties regardless of who is the governor. It is a committee that will expose corruption among both the Jubilee Governors and the CORD governors where they find it. However, we are behaving as if we are constituting membership of the Committee to go and protect or defend positions which, is very unfortunate, to say the least. To me, even if all the Members of the Committee came from across the Floor and they are men and women of unquestionable integrity, I will have no problem as long as they discharge the duties and functions of oversight. However, I can see very clearly from the body language, expressions and spoken words that there are certain colleagues on a mission. If the mission is to convolute, misdirect and undermine the oversight role of this Senate, then we are doing the wrong things."
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