Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1358189,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1358189/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 389,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Fatuma Mohammed",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, may I inform the House that birds of a feather flock together. I can repeat here. The Hustler Fund is under the Special Funds Accounts Committee. I speak to inform you once more that if it was a group, there is no group called… I will give you the exact name that your President talked of: Harrisson Karisa can never be a group. That is an individual. If it was a group, then tell your President to come back here and say that it was a group, because he lied. The truth is he lied and there are more lies. The guy has perfected his lies that these days he does not write or read them anymore. He has them off his head. What I expected Mr President to speak more about is the cost of living. Justify it or do not justify it, but please, put some peace into our hearts by telling us that there is something you can do about the cost of living. Instead, he told us that there is nothing to be done and we have to live with it. There are people who are dying because of hunger and it is painful when a President speaks this way. He eats seven meals a day and so, he has no pain of what wananchi are going through. I can tell you the famous saying that, ‘ vitu ni different kwa ground’. These Members who are speaking here cannot go home and say those things that they have said here. They know that vitu ni different kwa ground. It is a painful incident when you go back home and see how wananchi are suffering. When we were doing demonstrations, there was police brutality. We lost lives. Some might have been his votes which he lost. Others might have been somebody else’s votes, but the bottom line is that we lost Kenyans. I expected an apology from the President because those are Kenyans and he is the Head of State. Those are his people who died. Through any other circumstances, I expected an apology. I expected him to at least tell us: ‘Stand for one minute’, as the Christians do; standing in honour of the dead for at least a minute. I expected that from him. It did not pain him because he did not lose anyone, but God knows how he will tackle that."
}