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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Machage",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Gisuka Machage",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope you preserved my time. It is very clear that the Chair said that to get facts to accuse the commissioners was a tall order. Therefore, the benefit of doubt should have gone to the commissioners. Why do we have to legitimize a wrong move by Parliament? What we are doing is to make what we call parliamentary dictatorship where Parliament will disregard all facts of the law in the Constitution. Parliament will break them from top to bottom and make its own law to expunge members of a commission who are protected by the Constitution. This Report may be adopted because maybe the majority have said so but today is a sad day for this country for openly disobeying the Constitution in the House of creation of law. We will be out watching how the new commissioners will be selected. In my own mind, the whole purpose of this exercise was to expunge the minorities and replace them with the majorities in this country. That was the whole purpose and there was no other purpose of this commission. This might be very painful but it is a bitter pill to be swallowed by those who listen. I oppose."
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