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    "id": 27846,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/27846/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "This Bill demystifies the criteria or lack of it that caused various governments in this country to bestow various status to towns without even thinking about the cost implications or what they mean and whatever that went with it. I urge the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government to look at what we are doing beyond cities, municipalities and towns. If you talk of about 5,000 people as the criteria for a town status, you are locking out so many areas that are mushrooming that require planning. Any settlement with more than 2,000 people is a small town. If they have built and they are all resident there, then we must confer them some status, so that they get planning, sewage and facilities so that they can grow into a town. If we restrict to the threshold set"
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