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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Omulele",
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Omulele",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for granting me this opportunity to speak to this very important proposal of law. First of all, I want to candidly come out and say that I support this Bill. I believe that this is a very well laid out Bill. Also, this Bill is a constitutionally required Bill, and it is supposed to be passed within a certain period of time as provided in the timelines set in our Constitution. Having said that and taking cognisant of the fact that Article 229 of our Constitution speaks to the contents of this Bill, and what it should contain, and having had the benefit of hearing the valuable submissions of those who have spoken before me, I wish to go straight to the provisions that are proposed in Clauses 33 to 40 of this Bill. These proposals are very progressive, particularly the provisions that we shall now have the Auditor-General having the capacity to conduct environmental audit. This has not been so previously and we know that we have a situation in this country where we are destroying our environment at an alarming rate. We have a situation where public funds 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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