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    "id": 921778,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, congratulations for shifting your position on this matter from the earlier position taken. I also want to encourage you that in a matter of distress of this nature and given the pain that the families are going through, that you, in fact, need not go through a committee of this House. The Speaker should direct the Attorney-General on behalf of the families of the victims, to go to court in a collective suit. He can get the manifest from the origin of the flight in Addis Ababa. He can get all the names and details and all he needs to have are supporting affidavits from at least one member of each family of the victims; take a suit to court; get a collective decision involving all the victims and then allow death certificates to be issued. When we say that the families can go to court, families suffer from various difficulties. Some do not have finances, some cannot afford lawyers and some have all manner of problems. I want to urge you - and it is within your power - that you do not have to send this matter to the Committee; that you direct that the Attorney-General through his Assistant, the Solicitor General goes to court forthwith and seeks court orders to obtain death certificates for each of the presumed dead victim on this flight. You can then expedite the rest of the process."
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