Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 117791,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/117791/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 509,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, over the years, there have been conflicts, that if you remove one economic way of life, then you have done away with all ways of life for them. Their cultures and traditions are based on the river. Looking at these communities, you will find them living at the lower riparian stages, where we have the Ox-bow lake; so, if you remove the Ox-bow lake, you have destroyed one way of their life. If you remove the forest, you have destroyed their hunting, gathering and bee keeping. If you remove them from the river, you have destroyed their fishing. So, automatically, you have messed up with their whole way of life. I am saying this because I have noted in the Harmonised Draft Constitution that all the land between the highest water mark and the lowest water mark has been removed from this community and placed under the proposed National Land Commission. That is a very big risk to these communities. I wish to request the Minister to make a special provision in this document that can safeguard the interests of these particular communities, because as much as they are a minority, they are also a major community as per their way of life."
}