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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "forget about these commissioners and empower the secretariat led by the Chief Executive Officer so that we have a single person reporting. This is a person we can report issues to. This Commission went with one of the best judges this country has ever had - Justice Aaron Ringera. When I thought I would be mourning so much, my own partner PLO Lumumba was made the Director of this Commission. The country remembers the gusto with which Prof. PLO Lumumba went into this fight. I did not know that Prof. PLO Lumumba would fall from the Floor of this House in the middle of the night in the way he did. It is a career killer. What should we do as a country to truly fight corruption? I am submitting to this Parliament today that if it were laws, there would be no corruption in this country. In fact, the anti-thesis of it is that the more the laws we have, the more the corruption we create. You increase traffic fines and corruption costs more. We make all these laws and the regulations but they are used to extort people when enforced. In short, I am constrained to support these amendments because I serve in this Committee, but it is a scratch on the back of the real problem. I believe, as a Committee, we will have time to go in depth to see how firmly we can deal with ethics, integrity and corruption in our country. I thank you."
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