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    "id": 1399488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Coincidentally, they are smiling around the Senate Majority Leader. I do not know if it is because Easter Holiday is near. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will just make four points. When you look at leadership and integrity, it talks about conflict of interest. What we are doing is just to enrich it. This is because, the architect and design of the Constitution is just to give us the structure. As a Parliament, we pass legislation to now enrich the Constitution. The fight against corruption can only be won if we have the right legislative interventions and policies in place. One of them is the conflict-of-interest. We do not want people using their offices to enrich themselves and also give influence. This conflict of interest is even outside the public Government offices. We have “sexually transmitted grades” in universities and institutions of higher learning, sexually transmitted job opportunities and many others. When you go to some of the universities, our young women and men are suffering from a disease that is perpetuated within the set up of public and private institutions of higher learning called, “sexually transmitted grades”. These are some of the conflicts of interests. Somebody who is higher up has undue influence against a person within that organization. People should know that they do not need to be in an office to enrich themselves unfairly. On the issue of conflict of interest; I would like proper elaboration at the amendment stage. However, I know that when the Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights (JLAHR) Committee will table a report, we should also look at it, so that we see their definition of conflict of interest. It should not only focus on the public. It should look at even somebody who is a chief, a lecturer or a pastor. There was a pastor who was taking undue advantage in a video that went viral. He said, he was chasing some spirits in some areas that I cannot mention because this is a Parental Guidance event. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of unexplained assets is important. I know there is wealth declaration that we usually do as public officers, but we want these issues to be taken seriously. Someone cannot tell us today that they are worth a million, but after staying in an office, two to three years down the line, they are a dollar billionaire. As a"
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