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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "I want to thank your office and the Office of the Clerk for once having taped the deliberations of the PAC, so that no clerk is accused and nobody in your office is accused to ensure that Members of Parliament can be true and can be held to account for what they say about each other or about the rest of us. If there are allegations of corruption and counter accusations of corruption, we must investigate. We want to know the truth. Even regarding the monies in question that Members keep talking about on corridors, we want to know who was paid what. Nobody should be above the law. I do not want my name to be tainted because of the carelessness and the greed of one or two Members of Parliament or a Committee. We must address ourselves to these issues. Having said that, I want to add that what we are talking about cannot be about the current Parliament. We are doing this for the future of this country. We said, and I saw opposition from some Members of Parliament, that we need to do two things, the first one being to deal with the number of Committees of this House. The number of Committees where there are contradictions; where committees call Chief Executive Officers or Members of the Executive appointed hoping for rent. We must deal with the issue of committee composition in this House. We also suggested that we need to broaden the mandate of the Committees and have 12 or 15 Committees so that when Members sit there, it is not only two or three Members interrogating a matter. This is so that you do not end up with insufficient information and a few people end up just appending their signatures. It is something that we must investigate. However, the bigger issue is the watchdog committees. We are allowed to exhaustively review our Standing Orders. We must go back to the original position where watchdog committees are headed by the leadership of the Opposition, not by Members of the Opposition. Why is it that way across the world? It is because if hon. Nyenze was the leader of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) we would not be here and I will tell you why. We would have called CORD PG and dealt with it in our meeting. That is the logic of it and this has nothing to do with hon. Ababu Namwamba or hon. Keynan or any of our Members. It is how Parliamentary work is done across the world. So, hon. Speaker I want to urge you---and I asked you yesterday to form a team like the one that we are doing for Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). We need to form a team of interested The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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