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"content": "I quite agree with what hon. Namwamba has said. Requests for Statements are not answers. They may not be satisfactory to the person seeking the request, but it will be the report. The Committee is required to just come and table a report. The House may decide to discuss it, express anger, happiness or whatever, but it will just be a report because the chairs of those committees are not Cabinet Secretaries. They are not representing the Government. They will merely be purveyors of information. This is a report, the Member requested for this and this is what we have got. We do not want to appear like we are holding the chairs of committees to the accuracy and the adequacy of information. Members requesting Statements are also required to appear before those committees, so that when that information is being given, you have the chance to interrogate the relevant Government agency or official, so that what comes here is a report. We must constantly have this in mind, so that you do not come here and start holding your colleagues and saying:- âYou said that policemen were sent there and they have not been sentâ. That is not the business of the person who is reporting. If you never got it there, the committee can report that you said that policemen have not been sent and the Cabinet Secretary said that they have been sent. They can report that because that is what they are supposed to do. They are not supposed to say: âWe actually went there. We went to Kiminini and found that there were 20 policemen who had been sent thereâ. To require that, the House will just be paralyzed. We should just take it that way."
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