{"id":471822,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/471822/?format=json","text_counter":201,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":382,"legal_name":"Amina Ali Abdalla","slug":"amina-abdalla"},"content":"The other issue that we have tried to deal with is becoming too wordy and giving too many instructions on what a Government should do. For example, the Bill stipulates very many steps to be followed before a Minister can declare a mineral strategic. That is not how a government should work. We should not be tying the hands of a duly elected Government; that it should follow long procedures on how to declare a mineral strategic. If today we decide that sand is a strategic mineral, so be it because the Government has reviewed that and we do not have to give rules and regulations on how to do this."}