Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1269684,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1269684/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 399,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, please protect me from the Member for Baringo. She will have her opportunity. She can stop contributing. I have a very good brain to make my contribution. I was saying it is sheer anarchy. We have witnessed a campaign of people being mobilised into riots, lawlessness, thuggery and robbery at times. We have seen people being robbed in the streets, shops being looted and very expensive highways and newly built roads, like ABC - Rironi at Kangemi being destroyed. I saw the other day, tyres being lit there and now there is a pothole in the middle of that highway. Tomorrow, there will likely be an accident there and we will all be questioning, why is the Cabinet Secretary not doing this? What about the person who lit a tyre to destroy that public infrastructure? I remember the last term when President Uhuru Kenyatta said, as he commissioned the Nairobi – Naivasha Railway, that any person who destroyed public infrastructure, he would not hesitate… In fact, if I quote, he said, “Haki ya Mungu, nitaweka sahihi anyongwe.” The former President swore to sign into law provisions to have people executed if they destroyed property. I am not saying President Ruto should sign so that those who destroy the expressway are harmed or executed, but I am saying we must be responsible as leaders. Today, we are using heavy words here and that is why I take great exception to the use of the term ‘genocide’ by Hon. Samuel Atandi. We have used phrases like “communities are being targeted,” and “the Luo nation is under siege/being targeted.” There have, indeed, been these violent riots. I must hesitate using the word ‘demonstration’ because there has not been a single incident of demonstration or picketing until yesterday. I must commend a group I saw in Kisii County yesterday holding a vigil peaceably and unarmed. Hopefully, it was Irene Mayaka who was leading them. I would like to encourage 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."
}