HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 225886,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/225886/?format=api",
"text_counter": 12,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": null,
"content": "Very well. Can I just say the following. As I said, somebody had to initiate something. I took the liberty, as the head of this House, to provide the necessary leadership. That is what I did. In fact, I asked for comments. As to the leadership of various political parties, I appreciate the fact that the Chair must recognise the leadership of the various political parties. But my very good learned friend, the hon. Member for Mwingi North, knows as well as I do that, in fact, since they got into NARC in 2002 up to now, there has always been a cloud of uncertainty as to the leadership of that organisation. Provide me with the requisite certified information and I will deal with it. As you know, the Speaker is a friend of every party and every Member of this House. I want to assure my colleague here, and all my other colleagues, that, indeed, I wanted an input from every hon. Member. To date, the only hon. Member who has given me a comment, and it was not addressed to me, is the hon. Mutula Kilonzo; he was advising his party leader, and he gave me a copy. I have my own misgivings about certain observations that he made about my initiative, but that is a different matter. I congratulate that hon. Member for, at least, putting his thoughts on paper. All of you, as hon. Members of this House, have an obligation to help your country, the Chair and this House, in getting together any regulations or laws that will enable us to transact business efficiently and quickly. The only thing I want to beg of all of you is that matters relating to our external relations should never be bogged down by our own internal bickering and disagreements. We must get out of that cocoon. Let us rise above the partisan and the petty and become leaders who will lead Kenyans into a viable and vibrant East African Community. You are all welcome to make your suggestions at any time in whichever form. I will be happy if any April 17, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 637 Member were to prepare better rules than the ones I have suggested, and I will present them. Hon. Members, I also want it to be on record that in 2001 I, again, took an initiative as I have done now, to make rules for doing exactly what we are alleged not to have done, and, in your collective wisdom, as Members of this House, particularly the ones who were then on my right hand side as Government, shot them down. I am now being asked to bring them back by the same people who shot them down. Let us be consistent. Thank you."
}