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"speaker_name": "Saku, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Ali Rasso",
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"content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I want to appreciate that this Bill is about the progressive nature of our law - that the laws of this country, if it keeps with the time, then we all appreciate it. For those who are property owners, if you have a house and tenants are living in it, you will find that this Bill is very important. Also, for those who are tenants in people’s houses, when they read this Bill, they will find that there are red lines for both the landlord and the tenant. Why am I saying this? The landlord will put up properties after borrowing money from banks or from wherever, so that they invest. When they have tenants, they would expect that the tenants are going to pay so that banks are paid or the guarantees of the loans are paid in time. However, what has happened over time is that people have used the law very mischievously. The tenant would go to court and say that they have not paid rent maybe for six months, but they can pay three months at that time. This, to an extent, really disadvantages the landlord. At the same time or in the same breath, when the landlord finds that the tenant may have been bereaved and they are not able to pay their bills in time, they take austerity measures which the Member of Parliament for Rarieda just talked about, that people use the law in a very mischievous way to undermine the rights of the landlord or the tenant. This Bill is timely. It has come at the right time. I think we will learn a lot about it so that, going forward, property owners or those who hire properties are not disadvantaged because the law protects them. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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