Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1155373,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1155373/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 239,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 376,
        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
        "slug": "millie-odhiambo-mabona"
    },
    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am not rising on the issue of whether Hon. Duale’s grandfather was a colonial chief who was harassing Kenyans or not. However, in tandem with what Hon. Kajwang’ is saying, there are certain things we need to discuss as a House which perhaps may not be put formally. So, I was requesting that perhaps we have a Kamukunji when we return. One of the issues of concern to me is that of the parliamentary calendar. You can see that most of the parties are conducting their primaries this week. I am supposed to be going for primaries on Thursday. You will find that most Members will not be here. I think most of the people in UDA were having their primaries on Thursday. The case is the same with other parties. What then happens and the official calendar says that we are going on until Thursday? Since we already know how the other parties are likely to operate going forward, can we stagger the parliamentary calendar to take that into consideration and also to take into cognizance the fact that as we go to elections in August, when you think in hindsight, it is actually miscalculated. Talking of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), people are already asking for bursaries, especially post COVID-19 pandemic. Children are going to get stuck and parliamentarians are not going to be here. So, we are going to have a very serious crisis. There are also other issues, some of which are not so important but which, going forward, if you are looking at the traditions of Parliament… I heard Hon. Duale referring to himself as a ranking Member. He is the only person who we officially recognise as a ranking Member. We need to do an official recognition of ranking Members, the American way. Sometimes we abuse ourselves as Members of the House. I was one of the drafters of the Constitution and we intended that Chairpersons of Committee rank pari passu to Cabinet Secretaries. However, we are treating ourselves as second-class citizens. Those are things we need to sort out even as we come back in the next Parliament. We need to give back the House the dignity it deserves by the way we treat ourselves and by the way we treat our own systems. Those are issues we may not discuss here but in a Kamukunji. 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."
}