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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Members who have contributed and supported this Motion because this is a Motion for posterity. Hon. Members are very understanding because we must move forward. I am very happy that out of the contributions--- When you are preparing to present a Motion, you may be looking at one aspect. However the statistics hon. Members have given today will help this country, particularly in view of the fact that Mr. Keter was here listening and taking notes. He has also given us a very good indication about what should have happened in this country 20 or 30 years ago, the business of privatization or using a combined strategy to generate power. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue that has just been raised by Eng. Gumbo is very serious. I am sorry to say that from my own experience in the Ministry of Energy, when I was an Assistant Minister - I do not know what is going on there now - but this borders on very serious corruption where we had the same people in the Ministry going to set up Independent Power Producers (IPPs). That is why power is very expensive to the economy--- I think he wanted to respond to that but we would like him to come here, in his own right and make a comprehensive Ministerial Statement on the specific issues that have been raised by Eng. Gumbo because that is what is making it expensive. This schemes we are going into like geothermal, are very heavy investments. I think it is good for the Assistant Minister to relook into this and see how we can diversify. We should also have a seminar or a workshop at the KIA for the small tea companies to tell us how they can supply more power to the economy. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the other thing that has come out very clearly is how our Ministries should work together. We had a meeting with one of the Ministers at the Public Investments Committee meeting and he told us that if he can give an answer that is specific to what he has been asked, he does not care what the other Ministries do. We then asked him whether there was no collective responsibility. Is there no way that you can consult your own colleagues to know what he is doing and see if you can work hand in hand? I would like to encourage the working together that has been suggested here between the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Ministry of Regional Development Authorities. The reason why we are asking for this is because we want the regional bodies to function. I know, for example, that the Lake Basin Development Authority was trying to establish a number of schemes within the Lake Basin up to Western Province where people have come up with small schemes of"
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