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    "id": 587365,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/587365/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lesan",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wilfred Rottich Lesan",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the whole issue of IDPs will not be solved as long as there is no criterion for identifying the IDPs or even the situations that creates IDPs. This problem would not be solved in piecemeal. The issue of IDPs revolves around land in this country. So, the way to go about it and solve this land issue is to go back and address the whole idea of land policy and tenure in this country and probably come back to solve the IDP issue. Families are now living in a fraction of an acre. We have a new cadre of IDPs; the sons and daughters of these people living in a fraction of an acre; as they come of age they claim they are IDPs because they do not have a place to stay. Therefore, we will have many of them. I agree with the Senate Minority Leader that we look at this problem wholesomely by addressing it as a land issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the formation of the Committee and add that it interrogates this problem much further before it brings it to the House so that we can have options rather than just lament on the issue of the IDPs. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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