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    "id": 400657,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I appreciate the sentiments of hon. Members. First of all, in our criminal jurisprudence, criminal responsibility is individual. It is not communal. It is individual. To that extent, when you are a public servant or a State officer, you carry that individual responsibility on any transaction that you undertake. To that extent – and, in fact, somebody should have appreciated the fact that somebody has been a civil servant or in a high position obligates that individual to apply prudence at the maximum and apply all rules as required by regulations, statutes and the Constitution. The import of this particular amendment is to shift the responsibility--- What the Committee has done is to propose further investigations by specialized Government agencies. That is none other than the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). This Report was not done in isolation. I do appreciate that. Sometimes we say: “Common sense is not so common”. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I want to read the recommendations of none other than the Office of the Auditor-General. I want this to inform those who are proposing these amendments. This Report is already with the EACC. These are the findings---"
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