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    "content": "determination of this matter. I want to caution. If this is the way chairs of committees are going to treat material that is provided to them, or, indeed, even Members, then you are going to make committees become a laughing stock. People will start fearing giving you information. You have not sat as a PIC to deliberate on this and bring a report. It is quite telling because you are the Chair of the Committee and you have taken the liberty to make a photocopy. I do not know how many of your Members have also made copies and where those copies could be now. They could be all over the streets. This shows bad leadership, because as the Chair of the Committee to do this, we do not know who else has decided also to make copies of this. What you are supposed to do is deliberate as a committee. On the day you table your report, it becomes public document because the information you will have given will have been processed through your committee. Now as the Chairman, you have decided to pick copies. If this is the way you do it in the committee, then the committee is going to lose credibility. When people start writing to say that they are afraid of providing information, it is because of this kind of behaviour. Hon. Sheriff, this does not prove anything other than to show shareholding. There was a reason why you wrote. This should be accompanied by a report of what your committee has deliberated on and resolved and recommending to the House. This is premature. So, for purposes of this debate, this particular photocopy is inadmissible, though it appears authentic, for the reasons I have stated. I want to caution Members. Avoid making photocopies of documents that are presented in committees. Even if you want me to see, please, avoid. I do not want to see until you have tabled your report. I do not need to see. As a committee, you have power under the Constitution and the Standing Orders to seek whatever information. When it comes to you, please, process it as a committee. Do not even bring it to me. If it does not come through me, do not bring it to me. Just process it, because it is meant for you as a committee. When you are through with it and you have done a report, I will see what documents you have seen as a committee. If we allow that process to go this way, then you are even selling the staff. The staff will also start making photocopies of documents. Where they take those documents, you will never know. How they are used and the purposes for which they may be used out there, we do not know. So, we will not admit this document here. Take it to wherever. I do not know how many copies of this nature you may be keeping, but you can take it back. You have made your point. But, please, desist from this way of transacting business. It is really unprocedural. I am afraid if the staffs serving your committee know that the Chair is in this kind of modus operandi. Do not be surprised when you start seeing documents which you did not think ought to have been somewhere where they are being floated in the streets. It could compromise the integrity of the work of the committee. This is just a word of advice. Hon. Abdullswamad, I will give you one more minute. Please, conclude."
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