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    "id": 641524,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this adjournment Motion. As I support, last night, I had great experience listening to the Deputy President addressing and answering questions from the public with regard to the state of the performance of the Government so far. As we traverse the country, at the moment, there are many questions which the public needs answered. I commend the Deputy President for having a town hall meeting where questions were fired directly to him and he answered them and perhaps allayed some of the fears that the public had by directly hearing from the horse’s mouth. I hope that, as Senators, let us go out and avail ourselves to the public and answer questions directly from them. This is because these questions are very important and timely and require timely answers. I also wish that the leaders on the other side of the House and other parties could also sit somewhere and expect to be asked questions. I thought the Town Hall kind of answers which I saw yesterday were not fraught with any risks. You do not stand on a shabbily made dais that is likely to go down. You sit nicely on a chair in front of a microphone and answer questions. Of course, daises go down. As you said, we need to look at the engineering that was used in constructing these daises. However, some things are of divine intervention and there might be other reasons why they go down other than engineering construction. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we wait for the---"
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