{"id":927144,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927144/?format=json","text_counter":50,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"On Joyce Laboso, this is was a great leader in this country and this is not an exaggeration but a fact. She joined Parliament when I was already an Hon. Member, but the same year that I came to Parliament. She came on ODM ticket. Again, she was a very strong leader in terms of capacity to understand parliamentary procedures. That is why as a House we went ahead and elected her as Deputy Speaker to deputise the Speaker in a transition Parliament, one that was so unique and one where for the first time we were going to test a bicameral system."}