{"id":730300,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/730300/?format=json","text_counter":296,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wetangula","speaker_title":"The Senate Minority Leader","speaker":{"id":210,"legal_name":"Moses Masika Wetangula","slug":"moses-wetangula"},"content":" Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not want to be engaged in unhelpful polemics. I am carrying out a critic of the President’s speech. Unless we want to curtail free Speech even in this House, then I am afraid we are killing even the institution that is the bastion of freedom in the country. I have said and I want to repeat for avoidance of doubt. The President said the police population ratio is higher than the one recommended by the United Nations (UN) I said I have checked and I have been told by a senior police officer, I do not have to name here because he will be dismissed immediately, that the figure is incorrect. It ends there and I do not see any problem. I am disputing the President’s facts. I have the right to do so. I am a leader of the Opposition and I am carrying out a critique of what he said. I have a duty to do that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you sat where I sit, you would be saying exactly what I am saying. If you sat where I sit, you would not be coming here and saying: “This sounded like Shakespeare treatise---"}