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    "id": 1202850,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, by saying “Mirembe mno” I was merely saying that she is telling the boyfriend, “may peace be with you, my lover.” I did not find it necessary to expound because that language I am speaking is spoken by seven million people. Under the Constitution, a language that has got that number of people does not have to be explained. It is expected that people from communities with fewer people will learn to speak the language of the bigger communities. For instance, you have to hear them and you are supposed to do business with them. Most of us strain to hear certain languages because we need to do business with those people. It is not an offence or unconstitutional for somebody to speak mother tongue, but not in this House. We need to encourage the President to talk more with his people. These profits they make is not business. It is criminal and profiteering. The President talked about the issue of the hustlers’ fund. If we are not careful and roll out the National Hustlers’ Fund before doing the proper legislation, we will run the risk of the fund being either a failure or abused the way the Uwezo Fund, the Youth Fund and so on have failed. Members of the public will say it is Government money. They will collect it and would not want to meet their obligation. So, we need to support the President by expediting the proper legislation to convert groups into either Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOS) or whatever organized groups so that money goes to people who will know their obligation. Having said all the good words, I appeal to this House on the challenges we had with the other House. You will notice in my speeches I am not referring to the National Assembly as the lower House. I am deliberately calling it the other House. The problems we had with the National Assembly is a question of attitude. If our attitude would be that we respect the National assembly, automatically they will respect us. During that mutual respect we should demonstrate that we are custodians of bigger ideas and agenda. My time is up. I second."
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