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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Maore",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maoka Maore",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I do not want to get near that issue, which you have concluded very well. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the Budget provisions of the Financial Year 2003/2004, this Government promised free education and started so many other projects. At that time, there were expectations of support from our development partners. But due to behaviour that has been exhibited by members of this Government, development partners have pulled out. Now that the World Bank, the IMF and the EU are likely to tighten their purses against us, we need the Minister for Finance to give this country a review on how he intends to finance projects now that donor funds are not going to be available. Mr. Speaker, Sir, His Excellency the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs says that 50 corruption cases are in court, but you will remember that from 2003 when they took the first cases of people they wanted to fire from Government to court, no corruption case has been concluded by our courts. I am not trying to insinuate that anything bad goes on in courts, but I am saying that the pattern in the last 20 years has been that no high profile corruption case has been successfully prosecuted in this country. That is why the investors and donors are jittery about the way we rush people to court just because we want to replace them. We have seen this happening very many times. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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