Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1228775,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1228775/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 264,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatan, MGH",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to comment on Sen. Crystal Asige’s Statement and also on the Statement by Sen. Kibwana with regard to privatization. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was reading the story of the wife of the founding father of Tanzania, the late Julius Nyerere, whom we hold in very high regard. There is a story told about his very wonderful mama who is highly regarded in Tanzania and East Africa as a whole. Amongst the seven children that they raised together with the late President, two of them had mental conditions. I am mentioning this to join with my colleague, Sen. Crystal Asige, to fight stigmatization of people who have issues with their mental status. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, autism can happen to the best of us, best families, Presidents, Ministers of the gospel, Ministers in Cabinet, Members of Parliament and Senators. We could all have children who have Autism because the causative factors are environmental, biological and some of them are inherent. You cannot prevent it. If it is going to happen, it will happen. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you have a child whom you love very much, but they have this repetitive behaviour as my colleague, Sen. Crystal Asige, has said. You have this child that you love very much, but when you smile at them, they do not smile back nor maintain eye contact. They are not able to answer to their names. Over a period of time, you get that assessment from the hospital and the doctors tell you that it is autism. We have been given the statistics. We cannot live without this part of our society. It is a sign of development and civilization that we take care of our weakest in the society. In fact, that is civilization."
}