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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have three points. It was alleged by one of the counsels that this whole meeting is an illegality of the Senate. I want to clarify that it is not an illegality. As it was pointed out, when you come to the computation of time, we were not in session according to our Standing Orders in the period between the first Thursday of December to the second Tuesday of February. We were not in session, hence the Provisions of the Interpretation and General Provisions Act Section 57(b) applies. This relates to the computation of time. I am clarifying that for the public to know that we are properly constituted. It states that if the last day of the period is Sunday or a public holiday or official non-working days--- The period between December and January, as I have stated, is a non-working day and they are deemed to be excluded days from the computation of time under any Act of law. Therefore, we are within the law. The second point that I want to refer to is our jurisdiction. The matter that we are supposed to investigate under these proceedings is under Clause 2, which is to investigate the matter. What is it that we are supposed to investigate? Under impeachment proceedings, it is the particulars of allegations against the governor. Our jurisdiction is confined to investigating particulars of allegations against the governor and not everything as we were led to believe. It may very well be that the situation was such that there were some incidental matters to this, like the issue of jurisdiction. If you come to that---"
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