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    "id": 743455,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am honoured to have tabled today the first Legacy Report of the PAC of the 11th Parliament. The legacy report basically deals with the achievements of the Committee in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sessions outlining the number of sittings held and the businesses transacted. It also outlines the pending business before the Committee and also lists some of the achievements and challenges that the Committee faced. It also gives the way forward and conclusion so as to help the incoming Committee to provide a bridge between this outgoing Committee and the incoming one. I think this is a good practice so that we do not create a lacuna . I do not intend to go through the legacy report in detail. I just thought that there are some areas that I wanted to highlight with regard to the challenges that the Committee has faced, for example, on issues of time constraints. Over time, the issues that come up before the Committee, particularly the Special Audit Report, have presented a lot of time constraints to the Committee. There is also the issue of reports of special funds such as the NG-CDF and the funding of political parties. We have also seen cases of undue influence where the Committee has, from time and again, faced constant attempts to derail its work through unsubstantiated and unwarranted claims, most of which were seemingly driven more by political expediency and malice made against Members of the Committee."
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