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    "id": 578516,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578516/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Clause 5 (2) says:- “The Chairperson and members of the Board shall be appointed by the Cabinet Secretary (CS).” It brings in another problem. If you look at the general theme and the way this Bill is framed, we are giving too many powers to the CS. The CS should do this and that. We are going to end up with a service which basically exists at the beck and call of the CS. I do not think that is what we intend to do. We have known that part of the problem we have had as a country, which has dragged us back, is sometimes the lethargy and the bureaucracy that goes with the inertia of Government. We must move away from hind-running into another headwind which, of necessity, has to come when we let decisions remain in the hands of CSs. Sometimes, CSs make decisions which are collective and binding upon other members of the Cabinet. Whereas the intention is to make the environment of business registration efficient, we are actually throwing a process that is supposed to inject efficiency, urgency and quality into the manner of doing things into the inertia of Government, which may take us back."
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