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    "id": 573203,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/573203/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Maanzo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kitonga Maanzo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The EACC is constituted under the law and its Secretariat is supposed to act when there is a report to be investigated. They can only be directed by the Auditor-General’s report where audit queries have been raised, or if a complaint has been launched by a person who thinks that some law has been breached. Then investigations are conducted. If investigations show that there are reasons to prosecute anybody, then the law requires that the person is prosecuted in the right way and within the law. However, there cannot be harassment. The Press cannot be used to prosecute people. I have seen that tendency with the Commission where committees are condemned wholesale. That happened to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives and also the Public Accounts Committee, which was previously headed by Hon. Ababu Namwamba, and now is headed by Hon. Gumbo. When something is published in the newspapers, it ends up tainting the names of the Members of Parliament unnecessarily. 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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