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    "id": 971472,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/971472/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Uganda, and the Americans are financing them to develop it. The Port of Tanga is dedicated to Uganda, full with a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) that will not be exaggerated in cost, like ours and with an oil pipeline to the oil fields of Uganda. Once that is done, believe me, Congo, Rwanda and Burundi will latch on to that, and we will lose business and revenue. Our economy will go down even more just because there is one, two or three individuals entrusted with public responsibility who cannot make correct decisions. This is what we are suffering from as a country; that people are given work to do, they do not do it, and when they do it, it is for personal gain and not the country. I want to urge that this kind of situation then calls upon this House and you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, and the substantive Speaker of this House, to bring back the Committee on Implementation of this House. This is so that when such resolutions that have been painstakingly and efficiently executed by committees, once you put the question and we all say “Aye”, that is the end of the matter. Nobody will call and hold anybody to account with regard to the follow-up to resolutions of the House. That is the purpose for which athe Committee on Implementation is available in every House of Parliament. Nobody has explained to us why this House abolished the Committee on Implementation. I want to urge, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that in your routine Speaker’s"
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