Entry Instance

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

{
    "id": 475759,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/475759/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 313,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
    },
    "content": "The KDF Act, Sub-section 3 talks about this scenario - and I said it that when a war, however small, like in the case of Lamu, falls within Article 241(3)(b), I am not the drafter of either the KDF Act or the Constitution. It is the people of Kenya through their elected representatives. Article 241 is like the Westgate and I want to tell the Member for Mbalambala that the Report from the KDF, after they exited from Westgate was reported. The HANSARD will prove me right. The Report of the two joint committees came to this House and it was rejected. For example, when we went to Westgate, the law under Article 241(3)(b)--- If you allow me, the first thing that KDF does is that they do a gazettement that they have done an emergency. When they exit from that emergency operation, they do another gazette that shows they have left. Then the law is very clear that within the KDF Act Section 3, they must do a report to Parliament. In the case of Lamu within the confines of Article 241(3)(b) it is where, on an emergency, the other security agencies have sought the assistance of KDF in a limited form. One, in terms of equipment like the aeroplanes and all that was used and in terms of the Special Forces unit of KDF – a well specialised group with night vision. The day the KDF will exit - and I have said it in my Report which I am going to table before the"
}