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    "id": 1105619,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1105619/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Otiende Amollo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13465,
        "legal_name": "Paul Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": "It is so elaborate that I have no idea what else any Member would think of. This Act covers so much that we usually struggle with. You will find that in Section 20, for example, it covers orphans and vulnerable persons. Section 21 covers the older persons who are even defined. Section 22 covers the unemployed. Section 23, which would have concerned Hon. Sankok, covers persons with disability, and it goes on and on. What the Act tries to do in my understanding is to centralise the idea of social assistance. We are a country that tries to experiment with social welfare, but we do not always do it properly. It is always haphazard. One time, you will find there is a Ministry for Youth that is giving out handouts, another time you find that there is a ministry giving out handouts to persons with disabilities and another one to older persons. It is not synchronised. It is my understanding that as we were trying to move towards a welfare State, we were then trying to synchronise all these things, so that we minimise pilferage and ensure that only people who are entitled to social assistance get social assistance, so that we are also sure that we can manage the social assistance that we offer to give. You can only give what you have. In all this, I am not sure I am persuaded or I have been made to fully understand why this elaborate scheme that we sought to implement nine years ago has not been implemented and instead of moving towards implementation, we are moving towards abolition. Once you repeal, there is nothing to talk about. It is as dead as a dodo. If you want to start anything else, you will start from scratch. In my understanding, if you enact legislation that is imperfect, you do not repeal it. You amend and improve it. If there are issues of regulations, even if there are regulations that can come under the PFM Act…"
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