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    "id": 107355,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/107355/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": "In a more rhetoric way, I will just reiterate what has been said; the need for this legislation whose time is really overdue, to ensure that we move to the next level in terms of getting things right in the governance of prosecution and getting matters of national concern, security and corruption submitted and executed without the hindrances that have existed in the past. The example that my colleague, Mr. Chanzu, was giving about Goldenberg should ring bells as we address this Motion, given that it has taken very few and isolated instances to expose issues that would have helped this country to grow and cause responsibility within the Government. These isolated cases and because of the absence of the Witness Protection Act, have relied mostly on the Civil Society to expose them and they end up not being followed up, redressed or corrected. We have relied on the media to expose important matters which should be in the domain of the State agencies. There is an on-going campaign on children’s rights and as amplified today in some of the media, there is need for the child to be protected. A lot of exploitations are happening in communities. They are happening in homesteads. Children are being exploited in illegal labour, abuse of children in institutions of learning, abuse of children within the jurisdiction of even religious organizations and a lot of this information gets to the hands of individuals who may wish to submit such violations but for fear of reprisals within the communities and organizations, these matters do not come out."
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