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    "id": 1014261,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1014261/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Shinyalu, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Justus Kizito",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 71,
        "legal_name": "Justus Kizito Mugali",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This kind of ranking is totally unfair. One thing that I have come to understand as a Member of Parliament is that not many people understand the work of a Member of Parliament. So, they are totally in darkness as they continue conducting research and opinion polls. For me, this is totally wrong. Hon. Speaker, as the Chairman of the Select Committee on Parliamentary Broadcasting and Library, I wish you would allow me to have these people appear before the Committee for us to deal with them. On this note, I would like to ask the Members of Parliament to support me. I tend to think that the people of this nation do not understand what we do. They think that our work is only limited to the plenary and constituencies in terms of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) thus we are not able to be seen properly. I want to ask Members to support me as I try to seek more coverage on television and radio, so that we can have our own television station that is going to cover us so that our people can see what we do in plenary as well as in committees and in international discussions. The citizens can see us and make informed decisions based on what we do because people do not get to know. As my colleagues have talked about being called, I was called many times and I was supposed to give some money. I do not want to mention much about that, but…"
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