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    "id": 1117837,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I would want Sen. Sakaja to let the Chair listen. In our electoral management, right from the time the IPPG in 1997, we have always had partners who support the IEBC without compromising its integrity and independence. Throughout, development partners always meet and put money in a basket so that no particular single country can have any overbearing engagement with the IEBC. Strangely, a letter was written by the PS, Foreign Affairs, to all partners that have been assisting and supporting our electoral reforms and electoral processes, warning them that they are not allowed to engage the IEBC, to contribute any money to any organization including the Centre for Multiparty Democracy and that IEBC and all electoral management agencies must be left to function within the budget that is available yet we know that there is no budget available that is sufficient. I want to urge the committee that will deal with this matter to summon the PS, Foreign Affairs, and demand that he rescinds that offensive letter. We know that our budgetary allocations given our constraints on public debt, our constraints on budget deficits, we do not have the capacity to fully fund our programmes. I want to see that this matter is looked into very deeply and we await the petition from the distinguished Senator."
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