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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first of all, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. Before I make my contribution, I would like to say that the Senate Majority Leader has pronounced himself. I believe that this discussion that we are having in this House is futile. It is an exercise in futility because the questions we have are close to 30. For me, I have not even asked her who are the owners of the financial platform. She is insisting that SHA and SHIF are working. The reality is that everybody in our Republic is talking about how that system does not work. I even want her to explain to me why the NIHF was removed from providing the basic services. We knew that NIHF had issues of corruption and mismanagement in terms of the payments. I see the Cabinet Secretary is struggling. Can I make a special request because I heard the Senate Majority Leader contribute and indeed the speaker who left before you came in did not pronounce himself what we need to do. I believe that this matter cannot be interrogated on the Floor of the House. Maybe we need to have it in committee so that we can spend even a whole day running through the figures, to ask those critical questions. Everything I hear here is as if this whole exercise is just a confusion and a rearrangement of things that I do not even understand. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not very literate. I am averagely somebody who has been to school. So, can we as a Senate ask the Cabinet Secretary to go and prepare herself and bring this issue for us to go through it with a fine toothcomb so that once and for all we may decide whether it is working or not? If it is not working, we go back to NIHF and fix it so that it continues working. NIHF was doing better than what is happening right now. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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