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    "id": 383758,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/383758/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
    "speaker_title": "The Temporary Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 125,
        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
        "slug": "elizabeth-ongoro"
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    "content": " Senators, I want us to be very sober with regard to this. Let me have your attention. If somebody said that we need to give a list of all the current patients or people suffering from malaria, would that limit us to people who contracted malaria only under the current dispensation or to people who also could have been suffering from malaria for the last 20 years and who are still currently suffering from malaria? Where would you classify those people? I still want to believe that the word “current” cannot be construed in this instance to mean only those who are currently living as IDPs. If we have a 90 year old man or somebody who is 120 years old, who is an IDP but was displaced in 1950, does that disqualify him from being considered when we are resettling IDPs? You must convince the Chair. In my opinion, when we talk about the word “current”, this simply limits us to have updates of whatever we are referring to. However, this does not limit us on where to start the investigations. All these points you are bringing are points you can bring during debate when you are given an opportunity and they will all be factored in the final statement that will proceed from the Senate. However, I believe that we cannot limit or leave out our old men who are also IDPs. When we are settling others, we should not be telling them that their status, as IDPs, is not current and, therefore, we will not sort them out as a Government or that we are sorting out people who are 40 years and below because they happened to be IDPs in the last 20 or 10 years. We now have to proceed with the Seconder of this amendment. It is in order. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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