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    "id": 948027,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/948027/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In fact, the question of accountability is not by a person to Parliament, but by the office of the Cabinet Secretary. When CSs appear before us, they come complete with a technical team. At times, they even delegate to members of the technical team to respond to questions directly because they have technical expertise. So, once we look at it from that perspective – that, the CS envisaged to report to Parliament is an office rather than a person – then we can internalise the concept of delegation of that accountability to a person below the CS. The only thing that should be done now, which used to be done even in the old days when I was in Cabinet, is that every question that was to be answered by an assistant minister was actually signed by the minister. So, assistant ministers were only carrying our delegated responsibility to come and represent the minister in Parliament by answering questions. But the minister took full responsibility for even the undertakings made by the assistant minister."
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