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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyammo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Thombe Nyammo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose the adoption of this Report. I want to reflect on the general mandate of House Committees. Our mandate is really not to micro-manage. Our mandate is an oversight mandate. We must remind ourselves that we are lawmakers and not law breakers. An oversight role does not mean interference with the internal management of an organization. It goes back to the whole structure of governance. We, as a Committee, have got our mandate; the Minister has got his own mandate; the board has got its own mandate; we must learn to respect each other’s mandate. If, as Committees of this House, we are going to start getting into micro-management of institutions under the Ministry over which we have oversight, we are going to abuse our mandate. We will become, not lawmakers, but law-benders and breakers. That should not be the case. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, where the board of an institution has carried out its own mandate in accordance with the law, this House should respect that and it is for us to support that. We have no other basis of coming to this House to recommend an alternative to that. In that way we, then, shall be law breakers. In this case, nobody is questioning the merits or the qualifications of the candidate who was recommended. If that be the case, let us respect these recommendations and let us allow the Minister to get on with the appointment. With those few remarks, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to oppose."
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