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    "id": 807535,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have an obligation as a House to guide you so that you make a favourable ruling. Secondly, I am not aware of any principle of law where any ruling is cast in stone and cannot be reviewed. I am persuaded that when you gave the ruling yesterday, you did not have the benefit of the HANSARD. Therefore, in that regard, Sen. “Daudi” Kabaka has a right to bring to your attention what is in the record of the Senate so that you can determine under Standing Order No. 94 whether the Senator made a statement of fact which he alleges to be true. You must make that finding so that the statement of fact, its accuracy which he claims to be true, can then be substantiated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the statement on record by my good friend and neighbour will not stand in a court of law. Nobody would even allow you. This is a House of record. We are like the High Court. The statement he made reads:- “My point here is that there is a man known as Rai. I do not know who he is---,” Who is that? Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka does not know who he is. He names a person who he does not know. What did you ask him to substantiate about that fact? “---but he is an Asian, and I am sorry. I am saying so because a lot of this sugar was found in his warehouse. I hear that this man known as Rai is connected” What are you asking him to substantiate when he says that he hears. Under the law of evidence, this is what is called hearsay. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am persuaded that you must withdraw your ruling."
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