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    "id": 477621,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/477621/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "The amendments are so extensive that it would be prudent to ask for a repeal of the current EMCA and come up with a new law instead of the amendment Bill. We need 21 days for public participation and reporting to this House by committees. The 21 days from today will take us to 20th August. That means that we will give the public a maximum of seven days to give us written input. This is a time when the EMCA must comply with the fact that our extractive industry, the oil, gas and mining sector, has not been well articulated in our environmental management and co-ordination activities. It would be irresponsible on our part to reduce the publication period and not to receive public input on this Bill, yet we have an option of getting three quarters of the membership of this House grant an extension of time. Even if I put away all the work that we have in the Committee, I will not be confident that I will do justice to this voluminous Bill."
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