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    "id": 826407,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/826407/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving an opportunity to say one or two things about this Report. First, I would like to commend the Committee for the work it is doing. We have had their reports for other special funds and we commend the leadership of the Committee and the Committee as a whole. The second thing is to appreciate that political party funding and the entire issue of political parties was carried in our Constitution because we wanted to entrench democracy and proper governance in the Constitution in a manner that was different from what we had in 1963. Back then, parties would exist at the desire and express authority of those in the leadership of the Executive. Unlike then, now we have political parties governed and protected by the Constitution. We thought that they needed to operate without being in the pockets of a few individuals. This political parties funding was provided for in the Constitution. As the Vice-Chair and the Chair of the Special Funds Accounts Committee have noted, we still have not got the whole funding as it was anticipated in the Constitution. The Executive is still playing with figures to the point where very little money ends up where it was intended to be."
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