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    "id": 43380,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/43380/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Chairman, Sir, this is a very vexed issue and you can be very sure that the Committee considered every side of this coin. We discussed “every which way”. We understand very critically what the Minister has talked about; that the Constitution just talks about one term of six years which will end very close to the elections in 2017. We considered those two and in the balance of convenience, we better inconvenience that side now, in our opinion as a Committee for the following reasons. First, we have just come from a very traumatizing election. The way, the elections will be held in 2012 and it is very critical. If it is held badly, there might even be no election in 2017. Secondly, we will conclude the boundaries issue which is a very critical function. This country almost split into several portions because of whom and where which commissioner was coming from. So, in the wisdom of the Committee, having looked at this in totality, we feel that the best way forward is for all the nine commissioners to be appointed at once for them to immediately take up the issue of the boundaries, conclude it and then lay down the process for the election for 2012 so that, once and for all, we are done with this process. We have looked at staggering and the terms---"
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