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    "id": 649388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Without belabouring this point, the point I am making is that we have the tools and constitutional basis. All we need to do is to deploy them effectively. We want to see the Committee on Implementation come to this House with a list of shame. It should name and shame serial violators of resolutions of this House. They should make it a seasonal, sessional or annual ritual of this House that you will come here and read to us a list of shame. Make it an arrangement where the Committee on Implementation can influence the budgeting process so that departments of Government that perennially ignore resolutions of this House, including repeated offences that come before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), can have their budgetary allocations dealt with differently. We have the platform to do that. I urge this House to deploy the tools we already have. My honourable colleagues on the right hand of the Speaker should not be apologists for the Government. You may sit here as members of the Jubilee Coalition but you are not members of the Executive. You are Hon. Members of the National Assembly. So, hold the Executive to account by deploying the full force of your oversight responsibility. We have the tools to oversee this Government effectively. Let us deploy them fully. Stop the urge to amend the Standing Orders, wailing and crying. That is unnecessary."
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