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    "id": 454691,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abongotum",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 165,
        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, first of all, I want to say that these are outstanding clauses in this amendment Bill. When we left this House, we got the news that the late President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed on. I want to pass my condolences to him and the family posthumously. Having said that, I beg to move that Clause 5 be amended in paragraph (a) by deleting the words “and approval of the Cabinet Secretary” appearing in the proposed new paragraph A. This is to ensure that the Cabinet Secretary shall not be deemed to be interfering with the internal affairs of the Commission on matters of human resource development yet the Commission is an independent office as provided for in Article 248(2)(j) of the Constitution. So, we want to ensure that the Commission is totally independent from micro-management by any Cabinet Secretary, namely, the present and even the future Cabinet Secretaries. This is because the complaint has been that the Commission was being micro-managed from the Office of the President by the Cabinet Secretary thus undermining the independence of the same Constitution."
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