Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1385908,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1385908/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 166,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ganze, PAA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kenneth Tungule",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "They have been operating under different laws and, therefore, their functions have been uncoordinated and haphazard. The outcomes of the operations could not be properly accounted for. Hon. Temporary Speaker, those authorities have the capacity to develop our rural areas if they are given the necessary legal framework. This has been difficult because they have been operating under different Acts of Parliament. This Bill, therefore, seeks to collapse all the different Acts of Parliament and consolidate the operations of the RDAs under one Act of Parliament. One of the benefits of consolidating the RDAs under one law is that their functions will be coordinated and it will be easy to oversee them. This Bill will be beneficial to this country. The Bill also seeks to rectify the very bloated boards that those RDAs have been operating on. Most of the board members do not hail from the areas that the boards operate from. We have six RDAs in this country, which are all operating under different Acts of Parliament but, during the operations of the boards – for instance, the Coast Development Authority (CDA) – you will note that the board members are from other parts of the country. This Bill will reduce the number of board members from 12 to nine to conform to the"
}