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    "id": 241961,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 196,
        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to register my support for the Motion as amended. Shelter in our rural areas has become a very big problem. If you visit some areas in Western Province, where the Minister for Housing comes from, you will see the poor conditions in which our people live. The Minister should work very hard to prove to our people that he is doing a good job. Most of our people prefer to live in grass thatched houses; even well to do people do so. So, I urge the Minister to go out of his way to motivate people with money to invest in housing, which can in future be inherited by their children. The Minister said that he has put up 600 housing units. But I do not know where they are because I have travelled across the country and seen no such housing units. I do not think that there are any new housing units in Western Province. He should try to push in Cabinet meetings for some money to come to our area, because in that way he will be remembered as a Minister who performed. He will not be like other Ministers from the province who held positions but did nothing for our people. The Minister also said that he will appoint more professionals to positions. We need professionals to help in planning housing in our rural areas. If everybody is allowed to put up houses haphazardly, in future, if a real government that sticks to rules---"
}