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    "id": 905800,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/905800/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want us, as a House, to carefully go through this Bill because it gives effect to constitutional effects. Sen. Kasanga and the Senate Majority Leader should look at this. When she says that mental patients can exercise full rights, particularly in politics. For example, stand for positions of representations, how do you reconcile that with Articles 99 and 137 of the Constitution that says clearly that for a person to qualify to run for Parliament, he or she must be of sound mind? A person of sound mind is not a mental patient. It goes on to say that for a person to be President, he or she must qualify to run for Parliament. This means that a person must also have sound mind. So, that provision may be subject to challenge as being unconstitutional. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this country, people who suffer from mental infirmity and problems have really suffered. If you go the market, you see them sleeping and sharing shop verandas with dogs. They sleep in total squalor and their families have completely forgotten them. There is a Tanzanian musician called Remmy Ongala, commonly known as sura"
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