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    "id": 135584,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135584/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish to support this Vote by first wishing the Ministry all the best as they set the programme in finalizing the national census which will be very important to planning and putting resource allocation systems in an equitable and accessible manner. We want to raise justified issues that need to be considered by this Ministry as a way of instigating or putting a system that can fast-track the Vision 2030, of which they are also in charge. First is the need to have an open Cabinet week in this country so that in every quarter we do have a Cabinet week where Ministries amplify their needs and challenges that they have faced in that quarter. This can be interactive to allow the public to engage the respective Ministries and also bring very clear targets that have been put in place so that the public can move with us. The system of performance contracting and performance appraisals is actually owned by our people. This would be very important. Second, is this flagship project; the preparation for them to have an investable stage, to have clarity and affirm the position that can easily be accessed and the details that can even be consumed by stakeholders and investors, both local and international that they want to engage. That would be very important. The third one is to have a reward system for the achievers in this country. That is the people who make small radios that we read of in the media. The scholars who are putting very good thesis on sectoral development matters that can be celebrated. There is no system to merit and celebrate our achievers in the Public Service. In the police force, for example, those who are doing exceptional things that can actually motivate and inspire the country and can also show that there is need for people to be committed and educated in very unique ways. The fourth issue is the need for the Ministry to instigate a system that can re- invent or re-engineer the bureaucracy. The doers are very important. We may have the best programmes and best targets but unless we re-invent the bureaucracy so that the doers are competitive and acceptable, like in the private sector, where there is a system of"
}