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    "id": 1363816,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1363816/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldas, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adan Keynan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a Member of this Committee and this is a very good paper. We all live in this country and understand the dynamics of our politics and demography. I liked the contribution by Hon. Cynthia, and we need to listen to such voices. Sessional papers have been politicised in the past. Population and development are intertwined. So, if this country wants to achieve meaningful development, we need to depoliticise numbers which have been made emotive and politicised for no apparent reason. Where I come from, we do not believe in numbers especially, the last census. So, some individuals have gone to court. We should go out of our way to professionalise and institutionalise parameters of development. I hope this Report will go a long way in helping us depoliticise numbers so they are used to achieve meaningful and realistic institutionalised development. That is why data is very important. I support this Report because I know the Committee has done a good job."
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