{"id":263065,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/263065/?format=json","text_counter":43,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Mwatela","speaker_title":"The Assistant Minister for Education","speaker":{"id":103,"legal_name":"Andrew Calist Mwatela","slug":"andrew-mwatela"},"content":"I must join my colleagues who have congratulated the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government, and all those who were involved in crafting this Bill for coming up with a piece of legislation that does pretty well in addressing a key component of our new Constitution - devolution. It should be appreciated by all of us that the new Constitution came with a lot of expectations amongst our population, most of all in the areas of land, devolution and governance."}