{"id":256788,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/256788/?format=json","text_counter":317,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"The reason that the Minister is giving is that somebody purportedly, the Commission or a Member of Parliament has in this Finance Bill tried to give hon. Members some supposed gratuity and yet no Member or the Commission has done that. I have been engaging the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance a couple of times today over the issue of interest rates of banks. He told me that he will withdraw the Finance Bill until I withdraw my amendment and that is not fair to this Parliament. That is a threat."}