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    "id": 553465,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "1 Wednesday 27th May, 2015(A) Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. Sorry to interrupt Hon. Musyimi, but I have a concern I want you to address before we can allow the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to give notice of his Motion. Hon. Speaker, I sit in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. We took time and listened to various sector Ministries. When it came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) refused to appear before us. Not even the Principal Secretary (PS) was available to present the views of the Ministry. We then received a letter signed by a junior officer telling us that the CS was unavailable. We sat as a Committee on taxpayers’ money and went through their budget in absentia . I find it hard to believe what I am seeing. Then I realised that the Budget and Appropriations Committee in total disregarded what the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations did in order to safeguard taxpayers’ interests. We did our work"
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