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    "id": 1034836,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034836/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nambale, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Sakwa Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is really depressing. I know that committees have a tough time calling a spade a spade sometimes because they have to have some balance. I guess that people expected harsher recommendations. My first prayer would be, as far as they have gone, the agencies that are being tasked will not wait for 18 years, months or two years to begin to move, like they did with the National Youth Service (NYS) saga. Probably, they will do. Lifting the veil is a technical term as you say. We know what it means - to get down to the beneficiaries. In popular press and perhaps social conversations, people know who they are. Perhaps, it is just the difficulty of the process of mentioning them in this setting, but it is extremely important. With the little information I have, I was comparing in my mind on the relative weight of punishments across countries. For example, in Kenya - I am not complaining about this - but you can commit murder, go in and after seven days, whatever it is, you can get time out and go back to your home. You can rape, go into police custody and the following day, you are released. We have become somewhat too liberal in terms of criminal punishments. However, there are other countries including some of those that are our biggest trading partners in which corruption of this kind is settled by the firing squad. That cannot be unfair, particularly in this case where the theft, graft and corruption resulted in deaths."
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