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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want you to look at the Front-Bench of the Grand Coalition Government as we debate this Motion. The way you are seeing it now, is the way it has been for the last three days that this most important debate has been going on in this House. This makes me to ask the following. Do they know the best international practices when it comes to the issue of Reports of the Public Accounts Committee? If you go to the House of Commons, you will see that this is one report that is given the same weight as the Budget Speech. You will find that when debate on the Report is going on, the Prime Minister sits in. The Chancellor to the Exchequer also sits in. Where is our Prime Minister? Where is our Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance? How on earth, do they expect to know how the Ministries they gave money to have been performing? I thought that the Prime Minister was there for coordination of Government functions and Ministries? We cannot afford to have the Grand Coalition Government giving the impression to Accounting Officers that they give casual treatment to this kind of Report. I would like to thank all hon. Members who have contributed and the few Ministers who managed to contribute. I am glad to notice that all the contributions were in support of this particular report. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage those Members of Parliament who did not manage to sit in and contribute. Now that we have laid on the Table the next report, it will be due for debate any time soon. They should take interest and make their contributions, so that my Committee can perform better, so that they do not think that they are doing an exercise in futility. I would like to remind hon. Members, who did not contribute, that if you go to the Library, you will find that contributions of the following prominent Members were always there when these reports were tabled. You will find the"
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