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    "id": 439562,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/439562/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Report. I want to congratulate my friend, hon. Kajuju for the good work that she has done. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Select Committee was formed on the basis of the Motion that was brought by hon. Kajuju. The basis was whether miraa is a drug. Looking at the recommendations of the Committee, it is clear that they went out of their mandate and found out that the miraa business is not conducted in a structured way, among other issues. In its Report, the Committee is not specific. The Committee was established on the basis of a Motion that we passed in this House – a Motion which came to this House as a result of some negative publication by the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse (NACADA), indicating that miraa was a drug. Therefore, we expected the Committee to tell us, from the research that they conducted, whether miraa is a drug or not. The Report does not contain anything like that. The mandate of the---"
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