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    "id": 729266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "March 29, 2017 SENATE DEBATES 20 Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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    "content": "I do not believe that discussing or debating the Presidential Address is about attacking people who are not in this House and cannot give answers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we allow that; where people can say what they want, then we will have anarchy in this House, which is not what we want. The reason we have Standing Orders and particularly Standing Order No.94 is so that Senators can take responsibility for the statements that they make. However, when you make general statements about a nation or a presidential address and you are not willing to clarify anything, then something is very wrong. Mr. Speaker, Sir, because we are a House of record, let me bring it to the attention of the House that yesterday a ruling was made by the Speaker who was in the Chair. He said that Sen. Wetangula should make certain clarifications before he resumes with the debate this afternoon and I have not seen that clarification. Instead, what I am seeing are further generalised statements about bribery and corruption against people who are not in the House to defend themselves. This is totally against the rules of the House. I think we need to get a direction from you regarding this issue because we cannot have our House degenerate into a place where we will be making statements and when substantiations are ordered by the Chair, none are forthcoming. Instead, we get more and more generalised statements. We need to get a clarification on this issue."
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