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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we felt that it was important for us to give a preliminary Report. This was necessitated by the fact that the creation of this Committee became necessary because there was a crisis in this country, and the crisis was with regard to the rising cost of living. Therefore, as a Committee, we felt it was important that even before we do our final Report, which would encompass some long-term measures to address this problem, it was important that we give to the Government a preliminary Report which, if acted upon, would have helped to alleviate some of the problems that we were facing then, hence the Report that we gave to the Government through the Office of the Prime Minister, and which was distributed to the relevant Ministries on 7th June, 2011. As I have already indicated, the content of that preliminary Report, including 21 recommendations, which are repeated herein, should be treated as constituting an integral part of this Report. The Committee was formed via a resolution of the august House on 11th May, 2011, following adoption by this House of a Motion by the Member for Budalangi, hon. Ababu Namwamba, in response to the public outcry over the unprecedented spiraling inflation arising from a sharp rise in the cost of fuel and foodstuffs in the country. The Committee’s primary mandate was to inquire into the factors inflaming this situation and table in Parliament a comprehensive Report with substantive recommendations on both immediate and long-term remedial measures. The immediate measures are the ones that I actually indicated we gave to the Executive arm of Government on 7th June, 2011. The Committee also held its first meeting on 12th May, 2011, where hon. Members unanimously elected Mr. Ababu Namwamba and Ms. Shakila Abdallah the chairperson and vice-chairperson, respectively. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, initially, we had a 30-day mandate which was expected to end on Saturday, 11th June, 2011. Within this period, the Committee undertook a whirlwind of inquiries culminating in the preliminary report aforesaid, which was adopted on 7th June, 2011. However, that preliminary inquiry also revealed that this matter posed such a massive challenge that it required deeper interrogation and substantive remedial measures that would include concrete proposals for specially targeted legislation as I will highlight at the tail end of my presentation."
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