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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, this matter is of significant interest to this House, because it also touches on how then the Back-Bench relates with the Government and how seriously, therefore, we would take any Statements or pronouncements made by a Member of the Front Bench. With regard to this particular matter of recruitment, especially of the 18,000 teachers currently serving on contract, I have asked a Question on the matter three times in this House. On three different occasions, the Minister for Education made a commitment; an undertaking, that the Ministry of Education was in consultation with the Treasury, and that upon approval of the Budget by this House, this matter would certainly be settled. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minster for Finance stood on the Floor of this House this morning to say that he was not aware of that commitment by the Ministry of Education. The commitment was given, not once, not twice, but on three different occasions. One would believe that the Budget, as an instrument of management of the finances of the State, would be the one thing that the Government consults over the most. Therefore, I think this is a matter over which the Leader of Government Business must be required to come to this House and tell this House and the nation whether this is a double mouthed Government, whether this Government has any coherence at all and whether, as Members of this House, should be under any obligation to take whatever any Ministry of this Government says with any seriousness at all."
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