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    "id": 627702,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/627702/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "The Committee also needs to be alive to Article 63(5), which specifically tells this House to enact this law. Parliament shall enact legislation to give effect to this Article. In giving effect to this Article as required by that Article of the Constitution, we need to go the extra mile and ensure that we do not leave anything to conjecture. Remember that we are dealing with an issue that has given us a headache since the foundations of this nation were laid. Let us not leave anything to chance. My final point has to do with what I noticed to be the very old absolute silence on the role of the National Land Commission (NLC). Nowhere, from the first page to the last, do you find the expression “NLC” in this Bill. I find that odd. The Constitution in its wisdom has granted NLC a mandate that is of an oversight character. One would have expected that this Bill appreciates and acknowledges that responsibility for NLC, especially in terms of Article 67(3), which says that the NLC may perform any other function prescribed by national legislation. In the spirit of giving the NLC that due recognition and providing a platform for the NLC to continue offering that oversight responsibility, I would invite the Committee to explore the possibility of strengthening that Commission. It is an important Commission and has some very specific responsibility in the Constitution. Its responsibilities are more explicit when you look at the management of public land. But I do believe that it still has residual oversight over all matters of land. May the Committee see how that oversight responsibility of the NLC can be handed over to the Commission, especially in Article 67 where you see express mandate handed to it in terms of policy guidelines and policy support to all matters of land."
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