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    "id": 455528,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for the protection. I will go straight to the points that I think are critical. I think that if we have programme- budgeting, we should stay with it, so that our comments over time and whenever the Budgets come up are consistent. We should think of whether by reducing or increasing a Budget it will contribute to the programme goals that we agreed on. That did not happen and I hope that it will not continue in future. Secondly, we talked about reducing the wage bill. But there is a cost of reducing the wage bill. You can reduce the size of the staff. If hon. Mbadi sits down, he will, at least, allow me to prosecute this discussion. You can reduce the size and the rate. I know that the word “retrenchment” is not a popular word, but whatever the case, if you are intending to begin to reduce the wage bill, then we must put down an installment of actions necessary to effect the reduction of the wage bill. I would have liked to see a greater consideration for social protection. We talked about payment to the elderly. We can also talk about retraining of staff, so that people can go into self-employment. The Uwezo type of goals, even if not just the Uwezo Fund itself, would provide funds that would ultimately cushion the people who will come out of the Civil Service payroll into self-employment. We have to think about what is going to be necessary to cushion the implications of reducing the wage bill. It is much more than conferences by the Salary Review Commission and others who plan to do the same."
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