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    "id": 520309,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangamati",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Wangamati",
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    "content": "As we look at the way some Ministries run the affairs of Government, it makes us feel that we are letting down our own people if we cannot stand as this Committee stood to report these matters very clearly. Corruption in this country has pushed us behind every year. If we are not careful we may end up going back to those days when the Government was just appointing people to head departments and parastatals who would mismanage funds. If we want to reduce corruption in this country, we will do it through the Departmental Committees of this House. That must bring the understanding that the Executive must do a good job, it must care and use public money for good development projects. A few hours ago we were talking about privatisation. We said we want privatisation and people who are committed to run these firms. I am sure we want to give it back to Asians. Whenever we have a problem, Asians will come in and we give them a chance to practise corruption. They reduce prices. If we give them sugar, at first they will pretend that they are doing well. Afterwards, they will lower the price for buying sugarcane and this will discourage farmers a lot. This is simply because we are poor 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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