Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 473351,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/473351/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 314,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Baiya",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 8,
        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
        "slug": "peter-baiya"
    },
    "content": "We, therefore, expect checks and balances among the institutions that will be involved in issuing licences and even those that will be supervising those institutions. That is why we expect the Cabinet Secretary to be an overall supervisor but not the one dealing with the operation or consideration of the licences. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have the best countries with the best practices to emulate. We have a country like Norway whose policies in mining are characterized by absolute transparency and openness and not like we see in Kenya. For instance, when they started exporting titanium in Mombasa, we started hearing that they were delaying that because they wanted to re-negotiate the agreement at the point of export. Of course, somebody who has already negotiated with you and has the agreement in his pocket will be a very difficult person. The country is in the dark on the Cabinet Secretary’s role in that agreement. The country is left in the dark about that agreement. We must make sure that for any of those agreements, they are made transparent and open so that even as the Government officials are negotiating with the prospective miners, they know that ultimately, the Kenyan public will get to know whether you sold the country for a song or whether you actually delivered as a public officer a good bargain for the country."
}