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    "id": 179837,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/179837/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. A. Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": ", the high class person who is taking cocaine or some more advanced and expensive drug to even the person in the village who is addicted to kumi kumi . That means, as a nation, we have a responsibility to provide treatment to drug addicts who cannot afford the expensive rehabilitation programmes that the private sector has put in place. So, I would suggest that this Authority would then be able to transfer, legally, from the Ministry of Health to that Authority the power to co- ordinate and ensure that the rehabilitation centres are regulated, have qualified staff and programmes that have been vetted by somebody so that it is not a simple business. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the fact that NACADA has had the issue of rehabilitation added to their mandate is actually just because the Ministry of Health is being relaxed about their statutory mandate. If they decide to be more strict on their statutory mandate, then that would mean there would be a fight between a mere gazetted agency and a Ministry that has been given the statutory powers to regulate the issue of rehabilitation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on that note, I would then say that the rehabilitation and treatment of addicts in our district and provincial hospitals would then be well covered by an organisation that is responsible for that purpose. For now, if you have an addict and you are poor, you have only---"
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