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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "The other thing I wanted to underscore, and I do not know how to bring this to the House is the importance of sessional papers. This is something I noticed in the 9th and 10th Parliament. In the 10th Parliament, I tabled and had sessional papers moved through a guillotine because nobody was interested to see what they contained. Then later on you hear people asking issues and you tell them it is in sessional paper number this. It is only one paper that people keep talking about and I think Hon. (Dr.) Otiende mentioned it today; the Sessional Paper No.1 of 1965. The only reason people are talking about it is because it has been in the media, but there are so many other sessional papers. There is the Sessional Paper of 1986 on the same thing on matters of economy, which was a revision of Sessional Paper No.1 of 1965, but you hardly hear anyone talking about it. This is what gave rise 20 years later to Vision 2030, which is another big planning for this country that we do not talk about. As a House, we are not concerned with that bigger issue of planning, but the smaller bits and pieces that make political sense or that we can internalise with. I really urge the House that we start paying more attention to sessional papers and contribute to them so that we can anchor any legal drafting, budgeting and allocation of resources on the issues contained in those papers. We can have an in-depth debate on the matters for each sector based on what is in the policy and what we see as being on the ground as part of our oversight. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I do not want to talk forever. I thank you for this chance. I want to stop there. I beg to support."
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