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"speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
"speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage",
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"content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently we have been criticized by the public so much. In this Parliament we have been grouping like birds of a feather. When a person of your community is criticized or accused of committing a crime of fraud, we all gang up to protect him even if he has âeatenâ. This is not the case for this particular Committee. They have done their best and we commend them for that. We have to build trust in this House. We have to be trusted by the public. Recently, we have been targets of criticism by the public and other societies because they say that we have refused to pay taxes, which is probably not quite right because we are trying to get a way of paying taxes like everybody else. We have also been accused of being the source of fraud and embezzlement of public funds. If you look at the polls that were produced the other day, they showed that we were rated at the bottom of the ladder. That is because we have been accused that some of us, apart from ganging up to support someone because he comes from your community, a number of us are âmouths for hireâ. Anybody can hire us inside and outside this place to say what is not right so that we can support one of our own, or our political party. I am very happy that we have all been watching and this Committee has worked very hard even at night to be able to produce a good report."
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