{"id":832842,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/832842/?format=json","text_counter":280,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":373,"legal_name":"Mohammed Maalim Mahamud","slug":"mohammed-mahamud"},"content":"Madam Temporary Speaker, after subjecting this Bill to a lot of discussion from the Senate, stakeholders and with its sponsor, it was agreed that it cannot proceed in its form. Therefore, we subjected it to a lot of scrutiny and have agreed with the sponsor that the Bill should provide a national framework for ward based equitable projects. The amendments that this Committee looked at were very substantive"}