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    "id": 937823,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/937823/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 827,
        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
        "slug": "godana-hargura"
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    "content": "It is good if we regularise our traditional dispute resolution mechanisms. In the rural areas, it is not easy to access the courts. Even when you access them, you need to hire a lawyer, even if it is a civil case, which is expensive. The person who has the problem does not participate in the process. He just sits there and allows a lawyer to talk for him. Therefore, if you have a lawyer who does not understand your traditions or the circumstances surrounding that particular dispute, you will be disadvantaged twice. However, in the ADR, you can represent yourself and put your case properly. You are also dealing with people you know; not a judge or a lawyer you do not know; or a police officer who will intimidate you. You are dealing with your own elders or people you know. That way, you can articulate your problems well. The conciliators of the traditional dispute resolution, who are the elders, understand the traditions. You will be advantaged in the sense that you are dealing in an environment which you understand, and which understands you. That way, you will get justice. When you try to sort out these disputes, it must not always be punitive. We must sort it out amicably and ensure that those people stay together without creating hostility among the community. Unlike a case where someone, because he or she knows their way round the courts, will take you to court and even take your own property, which creates hostility in that particular environment. However, this approach will have all of us sit there, justice will be served and the people will continue living together amicably. I like the way the Bill is structured. The objectives of the Bill are to create effective mechanisms for amicable dispute resolutions; conciliatory approach in solving disputes so that you leave the community better, once that dispute is solved than having"
}