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    "id": 896362,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/896362/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mumias East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Benjamin Washiali",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Jomo Washiali",
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    "content": "When it comes to the war against corruption which we really support as Members of this House, I am sure the President disappointed many Members and even those away from this House because they expected him to sack some Cabinet Secretaries just like our colleagues were saying. However, from experience, when the President gave his State of the Nation Address in 2015, five Cabinet Secretaries were sacked following a report of the EACC. Up to date, we have not prosecuted those former Cabinet Secretaries. It is important, just like the President said that we need not to follow the vigilante kind of justice. We should take whoever has been involved in corruption through the whole process so that when he is making a decision on who to sack, he bases it on a matter that has already been decided by the law. Therefore, it is important that as Members, we support the President in the war against corruption and the vigilante justice that we are now seeing even from some of our colleagues in this House who are going out there to give the DCI one or two weeks ultimatum should not be allowed. Thank you."
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