{"id":111914,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/111914/?format=json","text_counter":442,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Ms. Karua","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":166,"legal_name":"Martha Wangari Karua","slug":"martha-karua"},"content":"I will endavour not to repeat what has already been put before the House. A lot of issues have been raised by people about the checks and balances of a presidential system of government. I will begin by saying that it must be noted by all that the system we have is a parliamentary system, but corrupted by the Office of the President being merged with the Office of the Governor at Independence and, therefore, creating a presidency that is unknown to a pure parliamentary system."}