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    "id": 1095330,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1095330/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I respect the Chair's views and you are very right. Indeed, the right to demonstrate and picket is defined. Actually, the Public Order Act and any necessary regulations that followed after are that the police need to be notified. In this instance, they were notified and informed. No rights were infringed upon. Nobody's rights were infringed upon. We want to do things based on law and the Constitution. Of course, we do not want to do something wrong. As you rightfully put it, you cannot expect people to start picketing inside the precincts of Parliament or go to State House to do the same. But, in this particular instance, I was part and parcel of it. I saw the police being informed in writing by the organisers. It is only that on the day people wanted to demonstrate, the police decided to use massive force. So, I am in agreement. It is in the way it was done, even if you look at the response. I do not want us to engage too much on it. I am just giving caution and, probably, opening up the ears of every Member here. I hope this is not going to be used as an excuse for anyone else who would in future wish to demonstrate against anything."
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