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    "id": 256036,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/256036/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kituyi",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade and Industry",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 293,
        "legal_name": "Mukhisa Kituyi",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have listened to very enlightening questions from you; first to Dr. Godana. Answers to those questions could make a phenomenonal contribution to the way forward. Dr. Godana is a very clever person and debater. He conveniently side-stepped the questions. When you told him that percentages and proportions were assigned to political parties, he chose to create a weaker question that positions are given to the Opposition and the Government. I had the privilege to be the first Whip of the Opposition in the first multi-party Parliament in our generation. From the first time in 1993, when we were constituting Committees, percentages were assigned to parliamentary parties and not to the Opposition and the Government, except for the two audit Committees where you numerically give half-plus-one to the Opposition. The question then becomes: What this Opposition approbated, it cannot reprobate. When NDP moved from being a party in the Opposition to become a party in the Government, they diminished the membership of Opposition in all Committees of the House apart from the audit committees and, by the same measure, enhanced the members of the Government side in those Committees. The party in which Dr. Godana was a Minister at that time gained strength because of the movement of a party from the Opposition to the Government side. If we are following tradition, we cannot blindly say that there was a percentage for the Opposition and that for the Government. There were certain proportions which were depleted from the Opposition side by the movement of a party---"
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