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    "id": 361208,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/361208/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose the Motion, purely on the basis of non-compliance to regional balance. A lot has been said. We have eight regions in this country. If the Government was going to be fair enough even to our regions, I truly believe that we have very qualified people that we could draw from the various regions that we represent. I am one of the people who were strongly involved in Constitution-making. We have eight regions in this country which were provinces before and I believe that, in the interest of fairness, which I am very sure the Jubilee Government is committed to, we could have been fair to nominate qualified Cabinet Secretaries from those regions. That way, we would not have had appointees here mainly from two ethnic communities---"
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