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    "id": 334549,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/334549/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Oyongo Nyamweya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, first, we ought to be very careful as a nation. I am very reluctant to support this amendment on the use of waiting cards, in the sense that if we go for elections and the results are very narrow and close, somebody can go to court and challenge the elections; that so-and-so has won this election because the people who voted did not have the original identity cards. So, let us be very careful with what we are proposing today, because it is possible that some waiting cards will be made in River Road. If they are made in River Road and people vote, we will get problems in this country. In all fairness, youth are everywhere in the country and so, we are all affected. So, let us use those people who have got genuine cards to avoid issues of litigation or somebody going to court and saying that a certain community took so many waiting cards and, therefore, has rigged elections. So, my fellow Members of Parliament, let us look where we are headed as nation and where we are coming from. I am sorry that I will not support the amendment for that simple reason because it may result in somebody going to court and bringing it up."
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