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    "id": 246866,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kingi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the President",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amason Jeffah Kingi",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I had already said, I wish to move an amendment to this Motion. Before I do so, I wish to say that the intention of the Motion is good. It supports what the Government is doing. We need to harmonize our actions so that we move on together. In the Motion that we have before us, it give 74 as the number of districts that are currently operational. However, the true position is that we have 71 districts. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other correction I want to make is that the districts which have been gazetted but have not been formalised are not 28 but 80 according to the Legal Notice signed on 16th November, 2005. In view of those corrections, I beg to move that the Motion be amended to read as follows:- THAT, in view of the fact that there are 71 districts in the country which are currently operational; aware that these districts are catered for in the National Budget through financial allocations and cognizant of the fact that out of the 71 June 14, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1333 districts, only 46 are legally established and aware that an additional 55 districts have been gazetted, this House do grant leave for the introduction of a Bill for an Act of Parliament to amend the Districts and Provinces Act of 1992 to validate the 80 gazetted districts which are not legally established."
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