Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 188410,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/188410/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 99,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 128,
        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
        "slug": "richard-onyonka"
    },
    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a very simple explanation for not increasing the salaries of the said ambassadors and high commissioners. One, the Directorate of Personnel Management (DPM), which is the body that rationalises civil servants' salaries, including the salaries of civil servants serving in the Ministry of Finance, and PSRRB, which was appointed to study and analyze how public servants are being remunerated were not consulted when Amb. Muthaura wrote this letter. In other words, what I am trying to explain to the House is that after 2001, there were salary increments for the ambassadors. First of all, I wish to clarify that since July, 2001, when the ambassadors' Job Group was upgraded from \"R\" to \"S\", two subsequent adjustments have been effected in favour of this category of civil servants. Secondly, in September, 2004, the ambassadors' Job Group was, once again, upgraded from \"S\" to \"T\", thereby increasing their salaries again. Thirdly, in January, 2006, the ambassadors, once again, enjoyed another salary increment. So, the argument being advanced by the hon. Member to the effect that no salaries have been increased for ambassadors since 2001, first of all, is erroneous. In other words, the premise under which he is asking the Question is wrong. The other thing we are trying to do is rationalising, in the Ministry---"
}