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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, you know I am one person who has on numerous occasions advised Chairs of committees to follow the law when addressing issues. Do not pick matters from the newspapers and then start an investigation. I think it is only fair that as a plenary we should even be more guarded. The issues that may have been raised by the CJ, if he wants them to be debated properly; he should forward his complaints to the committee of this House that oversees him. If we pick it from television screens and newspapers, we shall open the floodgates of those many investigations that have purported to be done by some of you, arising from stories you may have picked from newspapers – some of them calling themselves political gossip, corridors of something. I would expect that the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs be formally contacted. A number of issues that the CJ raised – I watched him speak – could be pertinent, but obviously as a House it would be wrong for us to just pick up the stories of what he said. Everybody will now be committing everything to your memories. If, indeed, the CJ wants this House to address any of the concerns he raised; which this House has capability to do… The CJ is obliged to formally communicate to Parliament. We cannot assume some of the issues raised, do not even concern Parliament. We do not know how people operate in airports or how people go to public State functions. If we begin to address them, it will be messy. I would expect that the CJ formally writes so that the House can, in a procedural manner, get seized of any of the issues that he raised. The ones of budget, as raised here by Hon. Kaluma, are properly before the House. The Chair of BAC merely requests that… Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi, when too many people contribute, it becomes messy also. I do not want to remind you of a good friend of yours who said something will happen. It was going to be messy, noisy and have casualties. So, let us do something which is not messy."
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