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    "id": 117051,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/117051/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, we want to deal with arrears that the various councils had charged because the Ministry granted the local authorities the opportunity to levy charges in 2001 through the by-laws mechanism. However, a policy issue that arises now is whether in the provision of certain essential services such as electricity, water or the oil pipeline that traverses through a certain urban centre, we should subject the people in that local authority to those charges yet they are providing a very essential service. So, this is a policy issue that we need to deal with. Whereas the first thing is to deal with the arrears, as a country, we will have to review this policy because services of this nature are essential throughout the country, and one has to question whether there is merit in making them more expensive to the users."
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