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    "id": 412989,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/412989/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabado wa Kabando",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 31,
        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Okay. I will comply with your instructions. On the NGO aspect, capping at 15 per cent, alongside many of my colleagues here who were the alumni of the civil society at one time, I can tell you that there are civil society organizations and public benefit organizations that derive their total funding externally and expend that total funding on humanitarian activities. It will be very limiting to limit them at 15 per cent. So, I think a review of this section is required, either to remove it totally and seek to track the financing of NGOs. That is the issue. We should know their funding sources. That is because we also know there may be “briefcase NGOs” that are misappropriating monies and they are operating secret accounts. But as we are trying to streamline those that are very wayward, we may end up suffocating the NGOs that deal with public health, reproductive health, child welfare and even education through financing orphans through bursaries and education in high schools and universities. So, on that particular aspect, I have difficulties approving the amendment."
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