{"id":981823,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/981823/?format=json","text_counter":224,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"The Deputy Speaker","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"In fact, I am shocked that we have not had cases of farmers losing their minds. When you watch them as I did--- I had gone to the village in the normal way and decided to go and inspect some of the farms where some damage had been reported the previous day. I had an encounter face to face with locusts. The sun blackened and the skies were dark. You cannot drive or move. Farmers are in a frenzy. Within five minutes, the kind of damage caused is so traumatizing. I had no option but to alight from my car and help my neighbours do what they were doing."}