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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage and Culture",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to say that we should respect the recommendations of the Ligale Report. It is important that we respect them. Probably, the new Commission could, in one way or the other, make amendments here and there. But the body of the Ligale Commission Report should be adopted in this new thing. That way, we will start very difficult controversies again. I remember that, and I do not need to quote it really seriously, at the beginning, there was a big debate in this country as to whether we should support population for the increase of constituencies or the land mass. Some people started discussing acres and so forth. I am not for that right now. However, I am saying that there is one important thing; that is, marginalization. In some of those areas, there is no infrastructure. There are no roads, telephones and the distances are so great. The Member of Parliament could not reach his own constituency as it were. That is what must be considered when we really delineate the constituencies as it were. That way, those areas will get constituencies so that the Member of Parliament can be able to serve his own people and, definitely, improve the infrastructure like roads and telephones. In some areas in this country, a Member of Parliament can reach about half of his people by telephone in less than one hour. What about some of those people who live in the bundus, trenches and all those other places where you cannot reach or hear them? They have no telephones. There is nothing. So, I think some of those areas must be considered. We can support them by giving them more Members of Parliament."
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