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    "id": 1036446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Luanda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": " Yes, for purposes of debate, I understand what my brother, the Leader of the Majority Party and my senior, Hon. Millie, are speaking to. There is a need to hold people who run those corporations and bodies responsible because, for a long time, we have had situations where corporates commit crimes and serious offences in this country, and they hide behind the corporate veil. What this is trying to do is analogous as far as I am concerned, to the practice in law, where the veil is lifted. It is a torturous process in law as it were. However, this is trying to make it easy here where the officers who run those corporations can be held liable as a matter of law. So, I think this is a new way of doing things so that we do not have to go through that litigious and long processes of the courts in lifting the veil where corporations are found to have been liable and the directors and other officers of that corporation hide behind the legal corporate identity of the company to say that they are separate from the company. This is a new tool that we have been making available to ourselves, but the drafting needs to be a little bit clearer so that we make it possible for the poor tea farmers who have been at the mercy of those people who run those corporations in the tea industry for long."
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