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    "id": 19220,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/19220/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we are to achieve the status of a developed country and yet, we have to sink money in the same projects every other year, then we are not doing the right thing. I also want to urge my colleagues in the Ministry and the construction sector that our economy will not grow as much as we desire if our infrastructure, particularly the roads, are not only properly constructed, but routinely repaired and maintained. There is one World Bank official who joked that in Africa, we do not have any word for repair and maintenance. Once you construct, inatosha until it wears out and then you reconstruct again. Yet, when you go to Israel, the highway from Damascus on which Saul was struck to become Paul is still there. How many years are those? It is over a century. I think it is important that the Board that is going to be set up to license and regulate engineers must be proactive and exercise an oversight and supervisory role. It should not only just sit to wait for complaints, but go out to see what is going on. That is because if they just sit to wait for complaints, then they are not doing the right thing."
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