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    "id": 950057,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/950057/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am told it is over 100,000 people every day. This is also an area that has been dredged to 60 metres deep to allow large water vessels and huge ships to pass through to the harbor. So, it is an area where everybody knows has lurking danger. A ferry is not supposed to be a death trap. It is supposed to be a comfortable vessel where people get on with their vehicles, buses and lorries to be crossed across the channel. I join Sen. Faki in asking: What are our preparedness levels in situations of tragedy like this? How can you have a ferry that crosses every 10 minutes with over 500 people across the channel without emergency services on duty? One would expect that we would have tag boats, divers and equipment. I am sure if all these was available, that vehicle would have been rescued even if probably the lives would not have been saved. Now, the family is highly traumatized; we know our loved ones were in the car, we saw them slip into the sea and now we are told they are trying to site where it is and that they cannot find it. This is an area with very heavy waves. You can imagine the waves created by those huge ships when they pass through the channel. That vehicle has probably been washed to kilometers away. If we do not have the scientific capacity even with low flying aircrafts to detect what is at the base of the sea, then 60 years after Independence, we have taken a wrong direction."
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