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Sorry Mr Chairperson, just wondering a bit.  What motive does the applicant have to launch his application for amnesty?  That answer is quite simple, Mr Chairperson.  It's my respectful submission that when this application was launched for amnesty, if one looks at page 3 of the bundle of documents, one would note that this application was commissioned on the 1st November 1996.  Now at that time the applicant would have still been serving his sentence.  In his attempt to launch his application it would have given the will to foresee that he may be out of prison sooner than expected and more importantly had he most probably stuck to this application itself as opposed to submitting Exhibit B, he would have had almost no problem in most probably succeeding his application.
	The Committee sits here today and has to make a decision as to whether (i) was the act or acts of the applicant political?  And (ii) has he fully disclosed as to what had taken place on the day?  He has expressly stated under his evidence in chief and cross-examination that he acted in self-defence.  He has also in paragraph 11 of his statement submitted on the 14th of this month stated that his act was self-defence.  Now the Committee now faces a problem in deciding whether we need to grant him amnesty for this application.  As the Committee you are faced with an issue of a political agenda.  Now the applicant has abandoned his political agenda and has brought to the Committee's front that this action was one of self-defence and his most fateful submission that this is not the forum to have raised this issue.
	My learned friend has argued that one can look at Section 20 and consider the acts, offences, in it's wide sense to embrace this argument.  My learned friend has further argued that ...(intervention)