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    "id": 1272364,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also stand to support this Report, but before I do that, through you, I want to tell the Hon. Member who just spoke that carrying of sufurias is usually a figurative demonstration. It does not mean that when we carry sufurias, then food comes. It is an expression of a complaint that people have. First, I want to support one recommendation that the Report and this delegation has given on the need for us to have a permanent anti-corruption council that is akin to the Human Rights Council that is globally acceptable. This is a very good recommendation. I would urge the senior Member to go ahead and come up with policies to ensure that this is in place. Corruption goes hand-in-hand with bribery. Bribery begins in our homes; for example, when your young children refuse to eat, you tell them that if they do, then you will buy them sweets. That is already injecting corruption and bribery into those young people. I want to urge this Council, and I hope it is open to membership of more Members, that we must start this conversation right from our schools. We have school children that are always coming to Parliament. This conversation needs to begin down there so that it is engraved within our society that corruption is not a good thing. In our society, especially on social media, people celebrate when others make quick money out of gains that do not have paper trail. Those are fruits of corruption. Right now, the society over-sensationalises whenever there is a corruption act or scandal but nothing really comes out of it. We should start putting our money, tax and actions where we want them to make gains. Today, the President presided over the signing of performance contracts by Cabinet Secretaries and State Department heads. I just want to urge the Government to ensure that these performance contracts are easily accessible to the general public. We want to see how our Cabinet Secretaries are performing. In each portfolio and department, we want to see where there are corruption issues and how the people who have been involved in such cases are prosecuted. Even at the level of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, issues and cases of corruption should be handled faster. They should be fast-tracked more than other issues. The moment a scandal comes into light, we are so quick to discuss it. As a public, we demand that these people pay for what they have done but because of the slow nature of the process of cases going through the judiciary, these issues are not prosecuted as fast as possible. Proactive engagement of the society is very important. As this Caucus does its job, even as they go ahead and consult with other countries both in Africa and the rest of the world, we also need to show an example right here at home. Among recommendations, they talked about the Rwandan example and how they have been able to facilitate learning, training, and enabling Members to know the issues they should be able to follow up. Right now, most of the transactions in our country are paperless. However, we do not undertake forensic audit of our paperless transactions. Who has ever done a forensic audit and brought it here for us to scrutinise? For example: how the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is being utilised; if the process is being followed to the letter, especially for those engaged in public institutions; and how they are able to do this. With those few remarks, I want to support the Report. Thank you."
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