{"id":1250666,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1250666/?format=json","text_counter":1764,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Hon. Temporary Speaker, the current economic situation in the country is not merely a product of simple step, hop, and jump; it is the cumulative product of a process that has been ongoing for years — the COVID-19 pandemic, Ukraine-Russian war, the drought that has been with us for the last four years, and the debt that has gone to the ceiling in the last Government."}