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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, still on the Deputy Leader of Government Business, last week I spoke to the Chairman of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Committee, hon. Ethuro, who is sitting right here behind me. What I was trying to intimate to him and which has been said before, in those areas where we come from, party nominations are the elections. I told him that the major interest that I have in what is going on is the CDF Bill. We agreed that, that Bill would come yesterday. We left our campaigns in the constituencies and we came here. Yesterday, we were told that hon. Ethuro was stranded. I had invited him to come and live in Rarieda where we have good roads and he chooses to live up there. Anyway, what I am concerned about is that without explanation at all, today we extended an extra day to come and complete the Committee of the Whole House on the CDF Bill. It is not in the Supplementary Order Paper and no explanation, whatsoever, has been given. I have engaged both hon. Ethuro, the Chairman and the Minister as to why it was removed, but they are shifting blame. Hon. Ethuro is blaming the Minister and the Minister is blaming him. They are saying “it was not me” like the musician. The main thing in the country now is elections and we cannot pretend about it. If we are to leave the campaigns and come here, it has to be for good reasons, but to come here for two days when the Bill that we are interested in is being shifted left, right and centre and nobody thinks it is even important to offer an explanation, with all due respect, that is an attempt to undermine other Members in this House."
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