{"id":169857,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/169857/?format=json","text_counter":364,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, cognizant that Local Authorities lack the capacity to pay salaries and allowances for councillors; conscious that poor remuneration leads to lack of morale and poor self esteem which hampers service delivery; this House grants leave to introduce a Bill for an Act of Parliament entitled the \"Local Authorities Remuneration Bill\" to fix the salaries of Mayors, Deputy Mayors and Councillors and for purposes incidental thereto and connected therewith."}