{"id":511062,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/511062/?format=json","text_counter":202,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ababu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":108,"legal_name":"Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba","slug":"ababu-namwamba"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Speaker. One fine afternoon, 32 years ago, specifically on 9th June, 1982, the House of Parliament sat and in a single afternoon debated in an accelerated fashion and passed the famous Section of the Constitution - Section 2 of the Constitution - that transformed this country into a de jure single party State. It took almost a decade of sweat, blood, limps and lives to correct that terrible aberration engineered by a House of Parliament. Tomorrow, we celebrate the 51st Anniversary of our Independence as a nation. On this day, the eve of our Independence Anniversary we should be celebrating our hard won liberties not rolling them back."}