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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, as I said in that communication, this is an area that is new, unprecedented and, therefore, we are in a way, setting new grounds by way of precedents that will be followed by the House in future and that will be binding on all of us. Hon. Members, the burden of proof remains where it has always been. It has not shifted by this ruling. It is incumbent upon a Member making an assertion or tabling a document to assure us to its accuracy and legitimacy. So, the burden of proof will still remain with the originator of a document or a claim. In the circumstances of this particular press release that was alleged to have come from the Africa Union (AU) because this was a completely new area and unprecedented, the Speaker was under duty to ascertain that, in fact, that press release came from the AU. One of the things that I did to establish that was to check the website of the AU and I found that press release on the website of the AU. That, therefore, confirmed its origin. So on that basis, I have found that it is authentic because I did not find it on any other website which technologically is possible to do. That is the position. The burden of proof stays where it has always been."
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