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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Member in order to impute improper motive on me? There is no substantive Motion before this House to discuss my person, my conduct and my character. The reports he is mentioning were all dealt with and all those matters that he is saying were put to rest. This is not right. We are debating a Report of a Ministry and not the Minister for Foreign Affairs. We have to be objective and not subjective. Unless there is a substantive Motion, because those points that he is mentioning have to be relevant to this matter and they are not true either, I urge the Speaker to expunge them from the record. Unless the Member brings a Motion to discuss me, and I will have ample time to defend myself, he should not discuss me. I have spent more than 30 years to build my reputation as a good lawyer in this country. The issues he is mentioning related to a law firm that I was with that gave services to this firm and the orders were that bills be taxed and in many of them, bills were taxed by lawyers who inherited the firm and were even paid more money by those firms. Is he in order to drag my name unfairly into a matter where we are investigating the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to which I am going to dutifully, as is expected by the House, make my responses? There are many things that have been said that I will respond to. I will have my time. My Assistant Minister is here and he will also have his time to mention things. I want to urge that fairness be the cardinal and the underlying rock principle of debate and not just speaking things and throwing them on the Table for purposes of prejudicing public opinion."
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