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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is unfortunate that as we debate the recommendations of the Committee, the President’s admission to that vice that action be taken within 21 days is being ignored. A presidential directive is earth moving. People would try to trip on one another to try and have it implemented. I wonder what is happening to our institutions charged with the responsibility of investigating thoroughly matters that are of this nature. I wonder what the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP), Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) and Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) are doing. If they are doing anything, they should let us know that they are trying to remove or knock out the teeth of the responsible individuals. As far as we are concerned, we have equipped them with personnel who are well trained. We have also equipped them with resources to carry out the duties that they are supposed to carry out. I still wonder why they are not carrying out their duties. Wherever they are, I urge them to do their work. I also urge the President as the person in whom and whose office we have vested unfettered authority that is only fettered by the Constitution and the law, he should move with dispatch and give life to his directive. The President is the Commander-in-Chief and he issued a command. Can the President’s command as the Commander-in-Chief be issued in vain? If he allows his command to be issued in vain, by allowing that to happen, he has abolished his own office. Perhaps his office is existing in terms of the niceties and flowers that it has but his authority is null and void because nobody is acting on his authority. If he does not want to exercise that authority, I wish and hope that there was a way he could allow Baba to do that on his behalf. The method of Kondele or some other places would apply by people who are ready to give life to such authority. That is of course on a light note. I believe that the President should say something and cause it to be done because that office is vested with sufficient authority."
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