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    "id": 28980,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/28980/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I congratulate the House for passing this Bill. We should do everything possible to make sure that the new dispensation--- This is because the provisions in this Bill are in light of the new Constitution. The old Bill was based on an old Constitution which did not enlarge the democratic space. But more importantly - and I think what Ms. Karua is saying is important - is that for the first time in our history, political parties will become organs of the Government. Political Parties will be audited by the Auditor-General and will be subject to many other principles that are set out in the Constitution. I appeal to this House that, in future, if we continue to run political parties the way they are presently and the way they were in the past, then the new democratic dispensation will just be like an animal farm. I plead with hon. Members that we take political parties seriously. Col. Gadaffi tried to have a no-party system and Uganda tried the same but it did not work. So, there is no other democracy which is not party-based that really works. It all works when there is order and discipline within political parties. I pray that this new spirit should be carried through."
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