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    "id": 524836,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, my concern with that provision is that the Auditor-General is empowered to audit. When you look at Article 229 of the Constitution where the Office of the Auditor-General is empowered to conduct audit, the Auditor-General is given the power to audit. But the Constitution does not contemplate a scenario where he would express an opinion as to what should be national security or not. What I invite the House to do is for us to think a little bit further in terms of what office, organ or authority could be mandated to express that opinion. It is important that the Bill goes on to include the Office of the Attorney-General in terms of giving that legal advice. But it would be difficult and this is a challenge to us. I will be bringing some proposals at the Committee Stage on how we can improve this provision in section 40(1)9(a) on who and how that opinion ought to be expressed."
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