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    "id": 681162,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/681162/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. S.S. Ahmed",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 140,
        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Bill by my dear brother, Hon. Neto. This Bill was passed in 2013. The CS and the Executive seem keen to sabotage its implementation. We have the vision, direction and legislation, but the implementation is what lacks in this country. Vision without implementation, to quote a famous president, Mr. Kagame, “is hallucination.” While we have the three arms of Government; the Executive, Legislature and the Judiciary no one arm of Government should be frustrating the other. This is a very important thing. The NGOs are our stakeholders and partners. Of course, there are bad ones and good ones, but we cannot throw the baby out with the bathwater. A lot of work has taken place. As soon as this thing is implemented, it will streamline the NGOs, regularise them and put into operation some for the regulations that are required. I would like to go a little further and say that I would like to chastise the CS and the Executive for delaying this law so far. If there were problems with it, they should have been brought forward here. They have not. I think that this is the sort of thing that is stopping the Government from implementing the good visions they have. Also, we have no idea as to why one particular person can stymie and sabotage the work of 290 Members of Parliament. With those few remarks, I want to thank you very much."
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