Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1064933,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1064933/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 293,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
    },
    "content": "As we sit today, the Committee notes that there are more than six cases going on in the courts. I have perused the Report and the nature of these cases because they are summarised for us there. The result of all of these cases is that the courts may actually find that the whole process from day one was a nullity. The courts have said so in their ruling. They have said that they will not stop us from looking at this Bill. I agree with them because of the principle of restraint. Even us, because there are more than six cases in the court and knowing that that is the state of affairs, why would we waste time, as Parliament, to go through a process that can easily be challenged by some of the players in those cases – and they are in this Report – that would lead to the effect that the whole process that led to this Bill was a nullity, and therefore, the Bill is improperly before this House? It would have wasted Parliament’s time, and therefore, would you guide us in that regard. Do we wait for the cases to be finished so that then we come here knowing what we are dealing with as the Bill? What is the reason of us looking at the Bill and then pass it, but we cannot take it to the President for assent? This is because the courts have said that we will finish this today or tomorrow and then we keep it in our offices until they decide maybe in July or August or even next year. That is when we can take it to the President or elsewhere. They may say The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}