Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1515831,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1515831/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 449,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. On the issue of whether the Speaker is supposed to belong to any particular political party, the law is very clear on every appointive and elective position that a person in this country holds. I have looked at that and there is nowhere that there is such a requirement. Where the law requires that a particular person belongs to or does not belong to a political party, it expressly says so. Hon. Speaker, I have studied this judgement. Paragraph 493 says: “It will be remembered that our Constitution at Article 99(1) (C) only singles out the Speaker as the Ex-Official Member of the National Assembly unlike all the other Members because of his special status”. The Judges who made this ruling did not even bother to read what Article 99(1)(C) of the Constitution says. Article 99(1) of the Constitution says: “Qualification and disqualification for election as Members of Parliament. 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."
}