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    "id": 1007379,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. I want to thank the Committee, especially Mheshimiwa Gedi, who seems to have done a commendable job this afternoon. Everybody is full of praise for her. I think she is also campaigning for that seat and she seems to have good support. Hon. Oundo on the other side certainly holds a different view, which can be improved. These Regulations are actually in response to Article 227 of the Constitution. That Article of the Constitution requires that we use public resources effectively and in the most efficient, transparent and accountable manner. I want to thank the Committee for coming up with these Regulations. Certainly five years down the line, I think the Act was passed in 2015, I am certain that as they were coming up with these Regulations, they would have paid attention to the many judgments and rulings that our courts have delivered on these issues when we did not have the regulations. If that was done, we certainly have a very good document that will help us move this country further. Members have talked extensively about procurement, but there is a sister to it: disposal of public assets. Mheshimiwa Kaluma alluded to this. We lose a lot of money in this country because of the way public assets are lost. Mheshimiwa Nyikal also spoke to this. There is a lot of collusion. We may be losing more money at disposal than at procurement. People will sit somewhere and conspire on how to dispose of a public asset, be it a vehicle or a piece of land or a building. Now that we have a procedure that needs to be followed, it is important that we pay attention to that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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