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    "speaker_name": "June 27, 2013 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 45 Hon. Chanzu",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to support the Appropriation Bill, but time for cheap politics should have ended by the time we promulgated the new Constitution. The injustices that have been experienced in this country cannot be addressed with the kind of situation that I have seen in this Chamber today. I saw it once in 1998 when we came to this House. We were in suits and some of us were having placards inside their suits and it was quite interesting. That was my first time. It is surprising that some of the people who have done these things were here that time. It has been a big struggle for us to get where we are. The issue of teachers is a problem that has taken 16 years. It started before 1997 as hon. Moroto has said. It is not something that you can just sort out over night because that is deceit. That will be cheating the teachers. Somebody sent me a message and asked me whether the Members are against the proposed amendment by hon. Midiwo and against giving them the money. I told him that he is being cheated and this is spreading lies by showing that hon. Midiwo is trying to get money for the teachers. He is trying to divert money which is meant for the education sector to other sectors. I am happy that the Members remained here and we still have a quorum. When I look in the Chambers, the Members are still ready. Even if there was any war, we would still conduct business. We really want this country to move forward. Somebody said that if you want to get to a place, you cannot get there by estimating the number of steps you are going to make. First of all, you must know where you want to go and then you prepare yourself to get there. I believe that this laptops project that the Government has in mind is something that we want to achieve at the end of the day. Last week, I was very surprised when I got a schedule at the Committee on Education, Research and Technology on what has been accomplished from 1997 out of what was promised to the teachers. We should take stock of what has been given and what has not been given to the teachers, so that we can work out an amicable way of having the matter sorted out, but we cannot sort it on the streets. When you encourage teachers to block the entrance to Parliament Buildings, how will you come and conduct the business which will help their welfare? We should condemn in the strongest terms the behaviour of some of the Members today in this Chamber. I am sure by now they are somewhere telling their masters what they have done, but it was all negative on their part. With those remarks, I support."
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