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    "id": 291232,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/291232/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Hassan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, while I agree with the Prime Minister that it is difficult to be prepared to respond or deal with floods, I think in most countries better planning, preparedness and response activities mitigate the effects of floods. We have raised this issue a number of times and I was wondering whether there is any plan, as far as his office is concerned, to create the necessary institutions to be able to do that. Also, there are many countries which face floods, but their bridges are not destroyed as much as ours. Their roads are not washed away because they are better built. In our particular case, we give most of these jobs to cowboy contractors who do shoddy jobs and poor construction. What is the Government doing in order to ensure that in the next stage, when we are spending a lot of money to rebuild those roads and bridges, we will give them to the best contractors who will build them to the highest standards, so that we get real value for our money? Much of it is now corruption, incompetence and shoddy construction work."
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