Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 464373,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/464373/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 182,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
    },
    "content": "On a point of order, hon. Deputy Speaker. I agree with the proposal by the Leader of Majority that this matter, perhaps, needs to go back and be re-looked at. But are we really in order to shift the basis upon which this House vets and determines nominees to various offices? I say that because this is not the first instance this House has had opportunity to do this kind of vetting and approval or disapproval. We have sat in Committees and listened to all sorts of allegations and claims brought against nominees to various offices, but we have always used a very verifiable and quantifiable basis, meritocracy, qualification and past performance. If we are going to shift the basis, so that if you and I have served on some board somewhere and we had a personal tiff and it becomes a basis for determination in this House, then we are in problems. If we are going to change the focus that personal differences out there become the basis upon which we determine the fate of nominees, it is a matter on which then we need to know that we have shifted the goal posts."
}