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    "id": 122119,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
        "slug": "kabando-kabando"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am coming to that statement and I have every right, as a political scientist to build the anatomy of my statement, and you must be patient and consume this information. Therefore, because we have done things that have been facilitated by our international friends, and because we have a National Accord that has brought this Coalition Government together and because as Parliament, we have enjoyed facilitation and, even escalation of our capacity by the international community--- But, because we have failed collectively to do certain things that can make a foundation for good governance, and because we have shown doublespeak and confusion, even making statements that actually contradict what we have agreed to do or what we stated yesterday, my submission is that what we need is a very strong international whip; those interventions that will allow us have logic and rationality that will put us on a pedestal of visibility where we can be seen to be a nation that is actually in control. But to pretend otherwise, is clear deception and it cannot endure. This Bill seeks to do two things that are necessary to punish those who perpetrated post-election violence. But it will be hypocritical for us to pretend that in this Government and in this Cabinet, all of us are innocent. It will be hypocritical for us even in this House, we who could not talk to each other for the better part of last year, some of who celebrated the massacres that were happening and issuing statements. My declaration is that, what we need is a whip that this House called for the prime suspects. That would be the biggest and the most significant message to be taken away. There should not be any fear or any ethnic or Government protection."
}