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    "id": 103262,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/103262/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I entirely apologize. In the past, the attitude of the Executive has been that the Motions that we pass here have been merely persuasive. This is the point I want to make. This is why we must pass this new Constitution, so that the Executive can move with the mood of this country. We must not take this opportunity to lose this chance that has come. Having said that, I want to make this other point that the small holder irrigation schemes development across all the developing world have been shown to be a very key and fundamental mitigation factor as far as dealing with drought and food deficiency is concerned. Despite the obvious which studies can show to be true, it has been very clear that small holder irrigation farms and schemes have been ignored across the country. As my colleagues pointed out when they were moving and seconding, respectively, it is only recently after we had a very serious drought that the Executive led by the President and the Prime Minister took a front role in terms of starting huge irrigation projects. The schemes of Bura Irrigation Scheme (BIS) and others were mentioned. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Motion is not talking about those schemes. I want to beg the Ministry of Agriculture, and I am glad the Minister is here listening, that the emphasis of this Motion is that food security must be in each constituency. It is not these big schemes that we saw the President and the Prime Minister opening up. We need these small holder irrigation schemes in each constituency to be revitalized because they used to exist."
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