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    "id": 186032,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/186032/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shitanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 207,
        "legal_name": "Peter Soita Shitanda",
        "slug": "soita-shitanda"
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not foresee any legal issue arising where the Government has not made any offer yet. What we did is that we advertised the houses for sale, and people submitted applications. We have not made any offer to any civil servants. The decision to rescind the sale of Government houses was guided more by the need to have these houses reserved for serving civil servants and future civil servants. On the second issue, it is true that some civil servants have developed the houses in which they are living, or invested in them. In such cases, we are prepared to look at the works that somebody may have done on the Government house. If need be, we will compensate such civil servants. We are aware of such cases. We are prepared to look at them favourably. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the the issue of grabbing, in the last 15-20 years, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, more than 700 Government houses were grabbed by politicians, business people and all manner of people. Some of the politicians who grabbed those houses are in this House. There are cases where people have not obtained title deeds for those houses. We are following up the issue. We want to repossess those houses. There are cases where people have obtained title deeds. We would like to go through a validation process, so that they could pay the value for those houses."
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