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    "id": 435198,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/435198/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Lastly, in respect of this particular bond, and that is not the topic of discussion right now but it is related, we hope we will disengage the issue of meeting obligations that we should have met before, if people had done their homework and come out truthfully with the timing of our sovereign bond. Unfortunately, it is coming at a time when it does not appear that this House is white washing - if I may use such an expression - some dirty deals that had gone on earlier in order to be able to clean them out, hopefully, and then go forward with the issuance of the bond. There are very many major issues here. They are not related. Unfortunately, they are related because of the timing of the issuance of the sovereign bond that is coming, and I think that is a matter that I hope this House will get a chance to look at. Specifically, I am referring not only to one set of deal; there are many others like the Anglo Leasing deals. It is not US$14 million as somebody was saying; it is much bigger and I know that negotiators have done a good job. We have a serious issue about how we stand; we put taxpayers’ money at risk at a time when we know clearly who did it and who was responsible for the corrupt deals. They are still flying around in helicopters and planes, driving big cars and even trying new games as we have seen in the newspapers. Here we are saying we can pay off that because we have a sovereign bond coming. We need sovereign bonds but the timing here is an issue we should look at; we can deal with that when we come to it."
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