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    "id": 429547,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/429547/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Naicca",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2427,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Manya Naicca",
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    "content": "Yes, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. So, that is an area we need a lot of clarification on. On the issue of reducing the ballooning public wage bill, I am not convinced that this should just be based on reducing the salaries of public servants. I am happy to have information that some senior Government officials have been interdicted this afternoon because of corruption. That is where the wage bill issue has been having a problem. The question of wage bill is related to the question of quality of service. It is not just a question of hiring 1,200 vehicles for police officers. How do those police officers live? You must have seen in yesterday’s newspapers how our police officers live. There is need to improve their living conditions. They live in shoddy paper houses. Unless that situation is improved, we should forget about doing away with corruption. The President said that we are going to have about 5,000 megawatts of electricity. Even today, some places like Mumias Town, people stay for five days without electricity. How can an economy be 24/7 with that kind of situation? So, the President should forget about achieving that objective, unless he does something on electricity. I thank the President for initiating Uwezo Fund but the mathematics of that Fund does not add up. It does not make sense to give Mumias very little money just because they have a sugar factory. We have seen what has happened with Mumias Sugar---"
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