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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am going to be very brief on this. First of all, I want to thank Members of the Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament for having taken time and taking upon themselves the very heavy duty of making a decision about the electoral commission. I also thank the outgoing commissioners who have been disgraced yet what has been reported here is that there were no findings. I think the statement of no findings is an escapist statement. They should have made it clear that there was no offence committed by the commission except the fact that they failed the confidence test, which is a thing that has no measure in terms of how you can quantify or qualify confidence. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is very unfortunate that these commissioners had to go. These are commissioners that we had a lot of confidence in when we put them in office. Unfortunately, we have accused them of all sorts of evil, including the “Chickengate” scandal and all manner of stuff, yet the Joint Committee has reported that there were no findings about their culpability of what we are accusing them of. I really commend the commissioners. We do not want to be like Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe chose some athletes to go to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She sent them to Rio to go and try to win medals but they did not win the medals. They left for Rio as athletes but they are now arriving back to Zimbabwe with the Commissioner of Police having been ordered to arrest them at the airport because they did not win any medals but they tried their best. The commissioners we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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