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    "id": 679443,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Suspicion about the roles of these people is not confined to Members of Parliament alone. I had a word with the police officers who man the entrances to Parliament and the ancillary buildings. They confessed to me that they do not understand the roles of these people. A number of them treat the police officers with disdain and suspicion, which will compromise the security of Parliament and that of Members. Indeed, they are murmured to be a private army which is working on behalf of specific individuals either within or outside Parliament. If this is true, those are very serious allegations. Therefore, I ask questions which I kindly and most humbly request you to address. Who are these people manning the security at the entrances to Parliament? Whom do they answer to, and what is their chain of command? Why can the police not do their work because all the entrances to Parliament Buildings and the ancillary buildings have police officers stationed there? What training have these people undergone to give them the necessary competences to do the work they purport to be doing? Those strangers invade the privacy of other vehicles, and by extension the privacy of Members of Parliament, in the name of inspecting them. What exactly do they look for? Are they trained to know what they are looking for? What precautions have been taken to avoid instances of suspicions and clashes between these people and the police officers manning the entrances to Parliament and its ancillary buildings? Why should Hon. Members continue to be subjected to this degrading invasion of personal privacy by strangers whose identities and purposes are not clear? With all these unanswered questions, could Members be assured that part of the work of these strangers is not secret profiling? Lastly, if these people were removed, how would the security of Parliament, Hon. Members, parliamentary staff and visitors to Parliament be compromised?"
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