Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 251975,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/251975/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 209,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kagwe",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Information and Communications",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 229,
        "legal_name": "Mutahi Kagwe",
        "slug": "mutahi-kagwe"
    },
    "content": "For instance, it is unthinkable that a responsible radio presenter would have the temerity to go on a live programme and liken hon. Members to prostitutes in Koinange Street, and I quote: \"There is no difference between these politicians and harlots in Koinange Street. This is sex politics and these political harlots are men and women in Parliament.\" Mr. Waweru, proceeds to maliciously and heretically beseech God to create a thunderbolt that will strike Parliament and kill all hon. Members instantly. As I quote again, Please remember this was on Friday. \"As we pray for our nation, my fellow Kenyans, I have a special prayer that God will listen to the cry of Kenyans and take action against the hon. Members of the 730 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 26, 2006 Ninth Parliament. This Parliament has become more than Kenyans can tolerate. The MPs do not deserve forgiveness or sympathy from anybody. This Parliament is full of people filled with the devil, and the only way is to destroy them like weeds or pests\". During the National Prayer Day, and at a time when the entire nation was engulfed in grief following the saddening and tragic demise of five of our colleagues and senior Government officials, this was the most insensitive and callous broadcast. This is, indeed, the height of media irresponsibility. To say the least, this was the broadcast stuff that, as you are aware, brought about the situation that resulted in the Rwandan genocide. If broadcasts such as Waweru's are allowed to be entrenched, they maybe akin to the Radio Milles Collins hate broadcasts that ignited the slaughter of over one million souls in Rwanda. This must surely be stopped. One is tempted to draw parallels between Mr. Waweru's broadcast and the work of Jean Bosco Barayagwiza of Radio RTLMC of Rwanda, Ferdinand Nahimana and Hassan Ngeze of the anti-Tutsi newspaper Kangira; all were jailed for 35 for perpetrating the Rwandan genocide. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my Ministry takes this matter with the gravity that it deserves, and has this afternoon communicated to the management of the Royal Media Services to immediately undertake a withdrawal and apologise to all hon. Members of Parliament, the Speaker and the House in general."
}