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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am shocked by the answer from the Vice- President and Minister for Home Affairs, who is not just an ordinary Member of Parliament, but a very senior lawyer in this country. He knows that there is a law that governs the ICC. How could he allow himself to engage in futile exercise that has wasted public funds, when he knows very well that the countries he went to like Tripoli and Malawi are not part of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council? If he had spent public funds going to one or all the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, who have the power to decide what he was looking for, then we would forgive him. He should tell us how much money he spent in that futile exercise. Secondly, he should clarify whether, now that I have pointed the law to him, he is going to abandon further wasting of public funds, especially in view of the following:- First, two weeks ago, the Prime Minister is on record as having said that what the Vice- President and Minister for Home Affairs was doing was not with the concurrence of the entire Cabinet. If that is true, he is, therefore, still living in the old Constitution which allowed the President to have Executive sweeping powers. I beg the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs to go and read Article 133 which does not allow the President any more to have those kinds of Executive powers. He is violating the Constitution because it says that to now exercise any form of powerful mercy, the President must fall back to an Advisory Board, which should be constituted under this Article by this House, and we have not done this. He should confirm that he is going to stop this futile exercise, so that we do not waste public funds any more."
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