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    "id": 742820,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/742820/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Onyura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Michael Aringo Onyura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity. I rise to support the Report as amended. I also commend the Committee for a job well done that has resulted in this voluminous Report covering nearly 400 pages and examining about 41 parastatals. That is not an easy task by any chance. Skimming through the Report, you find that there are all manner of irregularities. For example, running through the whole Report are issues of irregular payments of allowances; irregular procurements; matters of mismanagement of imprest; non-return of the imprest; improper disposal of assets; non-remission of statutory deductions, including in some cases members’ funds like those going to the cooperatives. The list goes on, just to mention a few. I have seen that the recommendations range from further investigation and prosecution to surcharges. What I am not sure about is whether any actual action is ever taken, because such reports are produced year in year out. Sometimes they cover the same organisations and the same management teams in those organisations, but we do not see anything happening. That is part of what promotes impunity. I do not know what mechanism we have, as a House, to ensure that these recommendations are implemented. Otherwise the whole effort just ends up in futility. The reports end up in the shelves and business goes on as usual."
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