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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sungu",
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        "legal_name": "Gor Eric Sungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for that ruling. I support this Bill. As a Parliament, it is necessary for us not to hurry when we are making laws for this country. Today, we have just witnessed a spectacle where rules, which we made in the last Parliament - of which I was a Member---We did not look at the rules in a historical perspective. They are now being applied against the very people who made them. It is, therefore, necessary to scrutinise these Bills when they come before the House so that, when a law is made, it can last for posterity. It should be a fair law that can be applicable by all generations. Therefore, there should be no hurry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have been criticised for not doing our work properly. I want to state here and now that some of us are ready and willing to sit even up to midnight to discuss these Bills, so that we can do justice to contentious matters. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I was interrupted, I was trying to point out that when those licensing Acts were passed, they were not just for providing revenue or creating barriers. They were meant to protect our people. Our people are still poor. They do not have access to credit and all the other incentives that foreign businessmen have. So, when we pass laws to replace the existing ones, the Minister must protect the poor. All countries do that. China went underground, protected its own businesses and, in a short while, when it came up, it is a force to reckon with in the world economy. It is now competing with United States of America (USA) and other super powers. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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