Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 470340,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/470340/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 69,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "poaching? Jumbos are being slaughtered daily. For the tourists, if you are told that in Maasai Mara or Tsavo, they are slaughtering Jumbos, you could very well be the victim yourself. This is undermining our economy. Where is the policy on this? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I heard very clearly the President say that he is going to widen supply of clean drinking water, but he did not say that he was going to control and correct the imbalances of the past where some regions of this country have more water than they need and some regions in this country have no water at all. We could very well be faced with a situation where those who have water are going to be given more water and those who have no water are going to get absolutely nothing. This is part of the lack of policy in this Statement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kenya committed itself to building the Lamu Port-South Sudan- Ethiopia Transport Project (LAPSET), linking Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia. I expected the President to put the highest priority on this programme rather than a casual mention that we shall look at LAPSET. You know that once completed, the LAPSET Programme linking Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan and beyond, was going to translate into a more than 30 per cent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of this country. Instead, we are engaged in trivia like salaries of Members of Parliament and small things that add very little value. If we want to control the national wage bill, we do not do it in bits and pieces and populist fashions. If you want to cut down the national workforce, you reduce the number of people and have few quality people, but pay them more. That is what happens all over the world. You do not just stand on the rooftop and say: “Salaries are too high.” If you want the best, you must pay. What you need to do is to make sure that you have one James Orengo doing the job of ten lawyers, and then pay him the salary of three lawyers. You will still have saved the salary from the seven lawyers that are not there."
}