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    "id": 371103,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/371103/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute and support this Motion. Issues of corruption have cost the economy substantially. The amount of money that has been lost could have been made available to the poor households. The amount of money involved with Goldenberg, as recorded, would have more than tripled the per capita income of Nambale, which is my constituency. Just that particular single scam! But that kind of scam and similar corruption have other consequences. They distort the allocation of resources. They do not go where they are expected. That is why development is undermined. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is not enough that one has stolen and built a skyscraper, bought a ship or created a water-way to his or her own home. It is because poor people will have missed on health services, children have missed education opportunities and so on and so forth. I think that menace or mega scandals must be taken head on. Parliament can talk about it, but there are also other agencies that should do something about it. I think we need to empower the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) so that he is able to take over this matter. It is now an independent office, unlike what it was before. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think we need to support the Office of the Auditor-General, so that he can help us in identifying those problems. I think the reforms implied are the police"
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