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    "speaker_name": "The Member for Emuhaya",
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    "content": "(Hon. (Dr). Ottichilo): Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate you and the Speaker for your election to that very important position. Secondly, I want to take this opportunity to thank the people of Emuhaya for having confidence in me and re-electing me as their Member of Parliament. With regard to the Presidential Address, I want to say that it was well balanced and well researched. If implemented, we will see a lot of changes in this country. However, we have had so many of such speeches in this House before. The most important thing is: How are we going to implement the proposals in the Presidential Address? That is where the challenge is. I want to believe that the President will come up with very innovative and visionary strategies to implement what he proposed. In this regard, I believe that unless the President restructures the Civil Service completely, we are not going to end anywhere. If we only concentrate on having an efficient and lean Government at the Cabinet level and yet leave the rest of the Civil Service intact, I believe we will not achieve what the President wants to achieve. Restructuring of the entire Government system is very crucial and important. With regard to devolution, I also believe that unless we restructure the county governments, we are heading nowhere. This is because, basically, what we have done is only to"
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