Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 520293,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/520293/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 301,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2256,
        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
        "slug": "david-kangongo-bowen"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I stand to support this Report and congratulate the Committee led by my good friend, hon. Ababu Namwamba. I have had time to go through the Report though not completely. I am happy that the Committee has done a very good Report. I do not want to repeat what my colleagues have said, but I just want to say one thing: The biggest issue that we have in this country is corruption. The major loophole of corruption in this country is in procurement. As I speak, procurement officers and accountants in the entire Civil Service are under the Treasury. They are posted or seconded in different Ministries, but they go there and commit crimes. These are people who do not have a direct reporting line to the line Ministry or the Ministries that they have been posted to. At a later stage, there is need for these people to be posted to Ministries permanently, so that tomorrow when we have corruption allegations or misappropriation of funds in their Ministries, the individuals, whether they are procurement officers, accountants or finance officers, are sent home and new officers are recruited. They should not be sent back to the Treasury or transferred to other Ministries. By so doing, you are transferring corruption from one Ministry to another. 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."
}