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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I support the Bill but let us be honest with each other. I have listened to the Mover, who did eloquently move the Bill. I have said, previously while dealing with other Bills, that we pass many Bills that are very good but they are never implemented. The issue of conflict of interest that is being addressed in this Bill is addressed in this House through the Standing Orders. When you are in a committee, there is a clause in the Standing Orders that says you must declare your interest if you are an interested party in a matter that is before a committee. This country has suffered since Independence because of conflict of interest, but I strongly believe that the Bill before this House today is just for purposes of making the donors, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF), happy. It is not about addressing the real issues that this country is going through. That is my view, and that is what I think is driving this agenda. The issue here is that as long as civil servants and State officers engage in private business; conflict of interest will never end in this country. People will use all kinds of excuses and manners to hide themselves so that they are not found guilty of the statute that we are going to pass here. If we are passing this Bill just for the sake of it, and as I have said to make the donors happy, let us be bold enough to say that it is, indeed, for that purpose. If we seriously want to address the issues that the Mover has alluded to, when we pass this Bill, we must see action that follows its passage. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want the Leader of the Majority Party to listen to me keenly. We cannot have a regime in this country that is governing through lamentations and giving excuses – that, the previous regime did this or that. If they have done so much wrong, reverse it. Where necessary, act based on the law. We are now one-and-half years in the current regime. We normally have elections so that better people can come to power so that they can address the issues that have been wrongly done by the previous regime. We are stuck somewhere just looking at the side mirror. As we all know, in a car, the front view is bigger than the side mirror. You keep on reminding us that it is the previous regime that did this. Why can you not reverse it? Why can you not address it? Why can you not use the law to address those matters? Conflict of interest is one thing that has killed this country. Do not just point fingers at other people. See the log in your own eye as well. There is a lot of conflict of interest that is happening now. We are aware of that fact. We know that edible oils, sugar and a lot of other The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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