{"id":300726,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/300726/?format=json","text_counter":861,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Minister for Trade","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have been sitting here quietly listening. I have gone through this before. I want to urge the Committee that there is no position to defend. You have placed a report on the Table. Allow us to debate it. Because when you look as if it is adversorial; something is on trial and you are defending a position it dilutes the debate. I want to urge the Chairman and his team to let a man against whom you have made very serious allegations to argue his case. I was denied that opportunity. Please do not deny him."}