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    "id": 146338,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. From the outset, I would like to dedicate my remarks to the very rich and encouraging comments that I received from the people of Mukurweini, my constituents, on the day that the hon. Minister for Finance read the Budget. It was very inspiring. I can sum it that it was sort of welfare-ist. It gave a lot of encouragement to our people. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of my constituents sent me a message that carried a very good biblical quote, Romans Chapter 5 verse 5. It says: “when you invest in hope, that hope will never disappoint you.” Realizing that the devolution of resources is happening and is now being entrenched in the Budget as presented by the Minister, the call and expectation by many people is that there will be a systematic devolution of bureaucracy, so that we reduce the bureaucratic fat heads at the top. This will ensure that the focus and advice is put on the ground. A lot of commentators have asked how this money will be managed. There is a misconception that this is money for the MPs. In fact, it is a bit ridiculous that when devolution of resources is happening, many people tend to trivialize the very important milestone as captured in the Minister’s Budget Speech. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is need for a Constituency Resource Management committee that will synergize money from the central Government, money devolved as the CDF, money devolved as the Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF), money from donors and money or resources mobilized by the community, so that projects that are"
}