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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. There is not much time. So, I will go straight into the matter. I start by thanking the Committee for preparing these Estimates, the Report and everything, and going through them within very difficult circumstances. It is not the same environment that we usually meet and do everything in relaxation. So, we need to recognize that they actually went out of their way at the risk of breaching the social-distancing protocol and other limitations to do a wonderful job. I also recognise that we are planning under what you have generally referred to as “ vuka” conditions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on your added vocabulary today, “ vuka” talks of very volatile situations and certain complex ambiguous circumstances. This is the kind of situation that is underpinning our Budget for this year. These Estimates can only be best estimates based on the current reality. Nobody knows how COVID-19 will pan out. Nobody knows when it will end and when certainty will return on the economy. I have heard comments to the effect that we should not bring another Supplementary Budget so soon. We need to be alive to the fact that there is nobody who can tell where we are, especially given the challenges that we have. Against this background, I would want the Cabinet Secretary, when he comes to give the Budget highlights on Thursday, to perhaps, consider two issues that I want to raise. The Report raises, in passing, the possibility of generating some revenues through divestiture. It is like one line within the Report, but there is not The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
}