Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 1519142,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1519142/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 351,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Thang’wa",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, as I rise to give my comments on the Motion at hand, I was asking myself why we are debating it. I remember even when we were elected, we did not have something like for those who never made it and for those who made it. I do not see why we are discussing this Motion. Now that it is here, I commend the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga for offering himself to run for the chairmanship of the AUC. Some of us are being accused of having celebrated when he failed to capture the seat. We never celebrated because Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga did not get the seat. We celebrated because some of those who were fronting him failed. I agree he was best fitted for that seat. However, just as in the 2022 General Election in Kenya, he lost because of those who fronted him. I wish he could have gone for that seat alone. I wish he could have campaigned alone because he has connections within African nations. He knows presidents and they know him. If he could have campaigned alone without the President behind him all the time, he could not have lost the seat. He lost the seat because of various reasons. It is important for us to understand the reasons because going forward, we might front another candidate. It is very sad even to hear a Cabinet Secretary (CS) calling Kenyans and telling them that those who celebrated Raila’s downfall have small brains. It is quoted of a whole CS saying people should not have celebrated because Kenya lost. Kenya never lost. What Kenya lost was billions that was used against the budgetary processes and any laws that we have. Kenya lost money, not only through the campaigns and the budget that was used to campaign for Rt. Hon. Raila, but we are losing money in the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), Social Health Authority (SHA) and affordable housing. Madam Temporary Speaker, a whole CS cannot tell Kenyans that Kenya lost. We have been losing. Kenyans were happy to tell Raila to come back and help clear the mess in the country because he and the President are part of the Broad Based Government and he cannot run away. We cannot allow the President to use international community to try and cleanse domestic issues. It was the prayers of many Kenyans that Rt. Hon. Raila come back and do what he does. Either he joins the Government and they continue looting or he speaks for the people as he has been doing."
}