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    "id": 187780,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/187780/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand on a point of order to request for a Ministerial Statement from the Minister for Housing. This is in respect of the sale of Government residential houses to civil servants that was started four years ago. This matter is urgent because the Minister has announced that he wants to refund thousands of civil servants the money that they paid as down payment. I am, therefore, requesting the Minister to clarify the following points: (1) What prompted him to rescind his earlier decision that those houses may be sold? (2) Why did it take this Minister over four years to have a change of mind during which time the people who had paid money went ahead and upgraded the properties? They incurred interest over the four years on loans they had borrowed to buy the houses. (3) How many houses, in the first place, did he sell and how much money did he realise July 29, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2147 from the sale? Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Minister must clarify to the country whether he will have to throw out those civil servants, some of them already retired, who had already moved into the house and upgraded them. The Minister should also make it clear whether he is going to compensate those people, in view of the interest on loans borrowed and in view of the cost of upgrading. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Minister should clarify whether he is aware that in so doing, he has actually opened the Government up for litigation."
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